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0349701032

Paperback The private joys of Nnenna Maloney / Okechukwu Nzelu

Author: Nzelu, Okechukwu

Year: 2020

Interest category: General fiction novels

Media class: Paperback

Category: Fiction

Publisher: Dialogue Books, 2020

ISBN: 0349701032 9780349701035

Control number 0349701032

Description:

'The Private Joys of Nnenna Maloney' is a comic novel about Nnenna, a half-Nigerian teenager living with her beloved mother Joanie. As Nnenna approaches womanhood she longs to connect with her Igbo-Nigerian culture. Her once close and tender relationship with her mother becomes strained as Nnenna begins to ask probing questions about her estranged father, who her mother 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.

Manchester (England), Fiction

GNR, General Fiction