01649nam a2200325 i 4500 OSt 20210414120731.0 210414s2020 enk g 000 f eng d 9780349701035 RM54.45 paperback PPAK eng PPAK rda 23 823.92 823.92 NZE G Nzelu, Okechukwu, author. The private joys of NNENNA MALONEY / OKECHUKWU NZELU London : Dialogue Books, 2020. 310 pages : 20 cm rdacontent text rdamedia unmediated rdacarrier volume 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 Winner of Betty Trask Award 2020 (UK) Short-listed for Desmond Elliott Prize 2020 (UK) Short-listed for Polari First Book Prize 2020 (UK) Teenage girls Fiction Racially mixed people Fiction. Mothers and daughters Fiction Educational novel Humorous fiction ddc B 183390 183390 0 0 PPAK G 2021-04-29 5 823.92 NZE A01689117 2026-07-30 2026-07-09 13:31:54 2026-07-09 B 0 0 SP G 2021-04-29 823.92 NZE A01689118 2021-04-29 00:00:00 B 0 0 KM G 2021-04-29 1 1 823.92 NZE A01689119 2022-09-05 00:00:00 2022-07-24 B 0 0 BL G 2021-04-29 823.92 NZE A01689120 2021-04-29 00:00:00 B 0 0 BB G 2021-04-29 823.92 NZE A01689121 2021-04-29 00:00:00 B