Tag: Chinelo Okparanta

• {Excerpt} Under the Udala Trees by:Chinelo Okparanta

  

  1 Midway between Old Oba-Nnewi Road and New Oba-Nnewi Road, in that general area bound by the village church and the primary school, and where Mmiri John Road drops off only to begin again, stood our house in Ojoto. It was a yellow-painted two-story cement construction built along the dusty brown trails just south of […]

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  April 29, 2015

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  Chinelo Okparanta, Under the Udala Trees by:Chinelo Okparanta

• {Book Attraction} Under the Udala Trees by:Chinelo Okparanta

  

  Inspired by Nigeria’s folktales and its war, Under the Udala Trees is a deeply searching, powerful debut about the dangers of living and loving openly. Ijeoma comes of age as her nation does; born before independence, she is eleven when civil war breaks out in the young republic of Nigeria. Sent away to safety, she […]

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  April 29, 2015

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  Chinelo Okparanta, Edwidge Danticat, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Nigeria