Under The Udala Trees by Chinelo Okparanta
A moving coming-of-age story set amid the aftermath of the Biafran War that follows a young Nigerian woman who discovers and falls deeply in love with another woman, then faces brutal homophobia, religious condemnation, family rejection, a coerced marriage, exile, and the burden of secrecy; through memory and storytelling she wrestles with faith, trauma, motherhood, identity, and the costs and resilience of forbidden love.
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- 2015
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