Foreign Gods, Inc.

"Ike embarks on an ill-fated journey from New York, where he barely makes a living driving a taxi, to his village in Nigeria. There he tries to steal the clan’s ancestral god, planning to smuggle the statue to a New York dealer for a high price. With deft plotting and sharp characters, this is an exploration of identity and belonging; desire and thwarted ambition. Ike’s homecoming is a disaster and he is a man in whom there is little to admire, but Okey Ndibe imbues him with humanity and pathos that has the reader rooting for him to the bitter, unhappy end."