Paperback, 328 pages
English language
Published 2015 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
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, they 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.
Set in Nigeria between the 1960s and the 1980s, it's a story of war, and many different kinds of loves. It grabs your attention, and chronicles many moments in time where humans don't showcase their humanity. It also portrays life in Nigeria for a young lesbian, with sensitivity and understandable outrage. I really liked it.
