![]() But there is a cost to living inside a lie. When their love is discovered, Ijeoma learns that she will have to hide this part of herself. They are from different ethnic communities. ![]() Sent away to safety, she meets another displaced child and they, star-crossed, fall in love. ![]() Ijeoma comes of age as her nation does born before independence, she is eleven when civil war breaks out in the young republic of Nigeria. Inspired by Nigeria's folktales and its war, Under the Udala Trees is a deeply searching, powerful debut about the dangers of living and loving openly. Nominated for the 2015 Nigerian Writers Awards (Young Motivational Writer of theĪ New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice Nominated for the 2015 NAACP Image Awards (Outstanding Literary Work of Fiction) A 2017 Granta's Best of Young American NovelistFinalist for the 2017 International Dublin Literary PrizeOne of NPR's Best Books of 2015A 2016 Lambda Award Winner Long-listed for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize ![]()
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