Under The Udala Trees

Description

One day in 1968, at the height of the Nigerian civil war, Ijeoma’s father is killed and her world is transformed. Separated from her grief-stricken mother, she meets another young lost girl, Amina, and the two become inseparable. Theirs is a relationship that will shake the foundations of Ijeoma’s faith, test her resolve and flood her heart.

In this masterful novel, Okparanta takes us from Ijeoma’s war-torn childhood through the perils and pleasures of her blossoming sexuality, her wrong turns, and into the everyday sorrows and joys of marriage and motherhood. Written with beauty and delicacy, Under the Udala Trees is a hymn to the complexities of love and faith, and a prayer for more compassionate world.