Chinelo Okparanta: Under the Udala Trees (2016, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Trade & Reference Publishers)
336 pages
English language
Published Jan. 4, 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Trade & Reference Publishers.
Ijeoma, a young Nigerian girl displaced during their civil war, begins a powerful love affair with another refugee girl from a different ethnic community. When the pair are discovered, they must learn the cost of living a lie amidst taboos and prejudices. Even as her nation contends with and recovers from the effects of war and division, Ijeoma seeks a glimmer of hope for a future where a woman might just be able to shape her life around truth and love.
When a book has multiple opening paragraphs describing a street, I know it’s not for me
Just fine, good civil war and civil society strife and fears for LGBT in a conservative society, but shallow story for all that depth to cover.
