Teju Cole in conversation with David Ebershoff

Though 2012's Open City was Teju Cole's breakout novel, Every Day Is for the Thief was published in Africa in 2007, and exhibits the same sort of ruminative episodes as the later work.Finally published stateside, Every Day is about a young man returningfrom New York to his home in Nigeria, at once confronted and comforted by those things he remembers.