Scale Boy : An African Childhood by Patrice Nganang

Patrice Nganang, the acclaimed author of Dog Days, Mount Pleasant, and A Trail of Crab Tracks, which was a 2022 New Yorker Book of the Year, writes about his vibrant, animated youth in Cameroon, a period of upheaval and change in the country’s history and in his life.

Scale Boy is a memoir that brings great brightness and joy to the tumultuous years of discovering oneself and one’s community; though there are moments of danger and confusion in his story, Nganang aims to present a new vision of a young Black African man’s coming-of-age.

Author: Patrice Nganang

Africa

Published on 16 February 2026 by Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc in the United States.

Hardback | 464 pages, 70 Black-and-White Images Throughout
237 x 163 x 39 | 618g