Nzelu, Okechukwu creator author. text novel Educational novel Humorous fiction enk 2020 monographic eng

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310 pages : 20 cm 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 general OKECHUKWU NZELU 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 823.92 9780349701035 PPAK 210414 20210414120731.0 eng