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The private joys of NNENNA MALONEY / OKECHUKWU NZELU

By: Publisher: London : Dialogue Books, 2020Description: 310 pages : 20 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780349701035
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 23 823.92
Awards:
  • Winner of Betty Trask Award 2020 (UK)
  • Short-listed for Desmond Elliott Prize 2020 (UK)
  • Short-listed for Polari First Book Prize 2020 (UK)
Summary: 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
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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)

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