Under the Udala trees
Subtitle: [a novel]
By: Chinelo Okparanta
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9780544003446
Subjects: Young women; Lesbian teenagers; Refugees; Nigerians; Fiction
Description: A young Nigerian girl, displaced during their civil war, begins a powerful love affair with another refugee girl from a different ethnic community until the pair are discovered and must learn the cost of living a lie amidst taboos and prejudices.

Ijeoma, a young Nigerian girl displaced during their civil war, begins a powerful love affair with another refugee girl from a different ethnic community. When the pair are discovered, she must learn the cost of living a lie amidst taboos and prejudices. Even as her nation contends with and recovers from the effects of war and division, Ijeoma seeks a glimmer of hope for a future where a woman might just be able to shape her life around truth and love.