Okechukwu Nzelu
Private Joys of Nnenna Maloney
Private Joys of Nnenna Maloney
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In "The Private Joys of Nnenna Maloney," Nnenna Maloney seeks to connect with her Igbo-Nigerian culture, while her mother, Joanie, grapples with her own identity and belonging. Okechukwu Nzelu's novel explores race, gender, class, family, and redemption with a fresh and distinctive voice. It is a funny and heart-warming story that will appeal to fans of Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams and Zadie Smith's "White Teeth."
\n Format: Paperback / softback
\n Length: 320 pages
\n Publication date: 08 October 2020
\n Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE DESMOND ELLIOTT PRIZE 2020
A magnificent novel, full of wit, warmth, and tenderness
Andrew McMillan
Smart, serious, and entertaining
Bernardine Evaristo
How do you begin to find yourself when you only know half of who you are?
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 about 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.
Okechukwu Nzelu brings us a funny and heart-warming story that covers the expanse of race, gender, class, family, and redemption, with a fresh and distinctive new voice.
Perfect for fans of Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams and White Teeth by Zadie Smith.
Effortlessly captures the tricky nuance of life, love, race, sexuality, and familial relationships
Candice Carty-Williams, author of Queenie
Edifying and hilarious, The Private Joys of Nnenna Maloney is a beautiful debut that you won't want to put down
Derek Owusu
\n Weight: 254g\n
Dimension: 127 x 196 x 29 (mm)\n
ISBN-13: 9780349701035\n \n
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