Mariner Books</br></br>Product Description</br></br><div><b>"If you've ever wondered if love can conquer all?? read Ijeoma's story . . .?A stunning coming-of-age debut."-<i>Marie Claire</i><br /><br /> Long-listed for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize<br /><br />Nominated for the 2015 NAACP Image Awards (Outstanding Literary Work of Fiction)<br /><br />Nominated for the 2015 Nigerian Writers Awards (Young Motivational Writer of?the Year)<br /><br />New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice</b><br /><br /> <b>Inspired by Nigeria's folktales and its war?? <i>Under the Udala Trees</i>?is a?deeply searching?? powerful debut about the dangers of living and loving openly.</b><br /><br /> Ijeoma comes of age as her nation does; born before independence?? she is eleven when civil war breaks out in the young republic of Nigeria. Sent away to safety?? she meets another displaced child and they?? star-crossed?? fall in love. They are from different ethnic communities. They are also both girls.?<div>??<div>When their love is discov"jeoma learns that she will have to hide this part of herself. But there is a cost to living inside a lie. ????<div>??<div>As Edwidge Danticat has made personal the legacy of Haiti's political coming of age?? Okparanta's?<i>Under the Udala Trees?</i>uses one woman's lifetime to examine the ways in which Nigerians continue to struggle tow