7/5/2023 0 Comments Udala treeThe book is beautifully written with so much ease it was easy to get through. I found Under The Udala Trees to be such a page turner. Under The Udala Trees is a coming of age story which follows Ijeoma’s life before the war, during the war and after, while she struggles with finding herself and living her truth. Inspired by her mother’s stories of war and Nigeria’s folktale traditions, Under the Udala Trees is Chinelo Okparanta’s deeply searching, powerful debut about the dangers of living and loving openly. Theirs is a relationship that will shake the foundations of Ijeoma’s faith, test her resolve and flood her heart. Separated from her grief-stricken mother, she meets another young lost girl, Amina, and the two become inseparable. One day in 1968, at the height of the Biafran civil war, Ijeoma’s father is killed and her world is transformed forever. “Mama says that war has a way of changing people, that even a brave man occasionally loses hope, and sometimes all the pleading in the world cannot persuade him to begin hoping again.”
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