Nzelu, Okechukwu, <br/><br/>
The private joys of NNENNA MALONEY / 
OKECHUKWU NZELU  
 - 310 pages :  20 cm 
<br/><br/> As Nnenna Maloney approaches womanhood she longs to connect with her Igbo-Nigerian culture. Her once close and tender relationship with her mother, Joanie, becomes strained as Nnenna begins to ask probing questions about her father, who Joanie refuses to discuss. Nnenna is asking big questions of how to 'be' when she doesn't know the whole of who she is. Meanwhile, Joanie wonders how to love when she has never truly been loved. Their lives are filled with a cast of characters asking similar questions about identity and belonging whilst grappling with the often hilarious encounters of everyday Manchester 
<br/><br/> Winner of Betty Trask Award 2020 (UK)<br/>  Short-listed for Desmond Elliott Prize 2020 (UK)<br/>  Short-listed for Polari First Book Prize 2020 (UK) 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780349701035  RM54.45 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Teenage girls --Fiction<br/>Racially mixed people --Fiction.<br/>Mothers and daughters--Fiction
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Educational novel <br/>Humorous fiction
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>823.92