`Remarkable range and exquisite prose` Ayobami Adebayo, Guardian Books of the YearA stunning collection of short stories from Caine-Prize shortlisted and Commonwealth Writer`s Prize winner Lesley Nneka Arimah, WHAT IT MEANS WHEN A MAN FALLS FROM THE SKY has been described as `luminous` (Roxane Gay), `mesmeric` (Claire Vaye Watkins) and `hilarious and heartbreaking` (Rowan Hisayo Buchanan). Shot through with magic and a powerful sense of yearning, this is a diverse and dazzling collection that showcases the work of a major new talent at the beginning of a stellar literary career.`When Enebeli Okwara sent his girl out in the world, he did not know what the world did to daughters`. The daughters, wives and mothers in Lesley Nneka Arimah`s remarkable debut collection find themselves in extraordinary situations: a woman whose mother`s ghost appears to have stepped out of a family snapshot, another who, exhausted by childlessness, resorts to fashioning a charmed infant out of human hair, a `grief worker` with a miraculous ability to remove emotional pain - at a price. What unites them is the toughness of the world they inhabit, a world where the future is uncertain, opportunities are scant, and fortunes change quicker than the flick of a switch. Characterised by their vividness, immediacy and the author`s seemingly endless ability to conjure worlds at once familiar and unsettlingly different, this is a remarkable debut from a `master storyteller` (Independent)