Song for NightSong for Night is a 2007 novella by Nigerian-born American author Chris Abani.ReceptionIn a review by Africa in Words, Alexandra Schultheis Moore, a Distinguished Professor in English at the University of [North Carolina at Greensboro] relays the novella's protagonist to Uzodinma Iweala's Beasts of No Nation, and wrote that the book "offers a compelling story as well as an extended, poignant meditation on representing African child soldiers and the atrocities they both commit and experience, particularly for an international audience". Micol J. Zhai, reviewing for The [Wellesley News] wrote, "Chris Abani’s novella is a harrowingly beautiful recount of war from a decidedly unlucky child soldier named My Luck".