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Under the Udala Trees

October 5, 2015

under the udala trees

  In Under the Udala Trees Ijeoma is only twelve years old when the civil war in Nigeria begins and her mother must leave her behind while she tries to establish a life for them in the north, a ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: Africa, book clubs, cultural, debut, historical fiction, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, literary, nigeria

Americanah

June 12, 2015

americanah

Ifemelu and Obinze fall in love when they are teenagers in Lagos, Nigeria. As the time comes for college and moving on they know that they have no wish to stay in Nigeria. Ifemelu gets into a school ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: book clubs, cultural, Knopf, literary, nigeria

Mr. and Mrs. Doctor

May 13, 2015

  Job’s father sends him from their homeland in Nigeria to America to study to become a doctor. Instead of doing so, Job flunks out of college but continues to tell everyone he is still ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: book clubs, Coffee House Press, cultural, debut, literary, nigeria

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