''Seesaw'' is the second novel by

Timothy Ogene Timothy Ogene is a writer and lecturer at Harvard University, Harvard. He is the author of ''Descent & Other Poems,'' ''The Day Ends Like Any Day,'' and ''Seesaw (2021 novel), Seesaw''. Biography Born and raised in the outskirts of Port Harco ...

. It was published in London in November 2021 by Swift Press, and was reviewed in ''

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'', ''Isele Magazine'', and Writers Mosaic. Excerpts appeared in ''

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'' and '' The Johannesburg Review of Books''. It can be considered as a classic road novel and, at the same time, a

satire Satire is a genre of the visual, literary, and performing arts, usually in the form of fiction and less frequently non-fiction, in which vices, follies, abuses, and shortcomings are held up to ridicule, often with the intent of shaming ...

; the voice of an

unreliable narrator An unreliable narrator is a narrator whose credibility is compromised. They can be found in fiction and film, and range from children to mature characters. The term was coined in 1961 by Wayne C. Booth in ''The Rhetoric of Fiction''. While unrel ...

depicts American culture and politics as seen through the eyes of a Nigerian scholar visiting

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