Under the Udala trees
About this book
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.
Subjects
- civil war
- ferro-grumley award for lgbtq fiction finalist
- fiction
- fiction, coming of age
- fiction, general
- fiction, lesbian
- fiction, lgbtq+, lesbian
- girls
- history
- lambda literary awards
- lambda literary award winner
- lesbians
- lesbians, fiction
- lesbian teenagers
- lgbtq novels
- new york times reviewed
- nigeria, fiction
- nigerians
- refugees
- women refugees
- young women