
First Draft - Chinelo Okparanta
First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing
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Harry Is Just a Young Man
Harry is a young man who, you know, i somehow landed on when i decided to write this novel. And writing a novel, it just depends on your process. For this novel, it was am seve years in the making, and i can't exactly pinpoint the moment where i had the idea that from the novel. But there also, the novel is also a very real, in your face kind of novel. It's an articulation of contemporary issues surrounding raceand racoem m - its focus is the black african identity.
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