{"product_id":"9780544003446","title":"Under the Udala Trees","description":"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eInspired by Nigeria’s folktales and its war, \u003ci\u003eUnder the Udala Trees\u003c\/i\u003e is a deeply searching, powerful debut about the dangers of living and loving openly.\u003c\/b\u003e 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. \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003eWhen their love is discovered, Ijeoma learns that she will have to hide this part of herself. But there is a cost to living inside a lie.     \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003eAs Edwidge Danticat has made personal the legacy of Haiti’s political coming of age, Okparanta’s \u003ci\u003eUnder the Udala Trees \u003c\/i\u003euses one woman’s lifetime to examine the ways in which Nigerians continue to struggle toward selfhood. Even as their nation contends with and recovers from the effects of war and division, Nigerian lives are also wrecked and lost from taboo and prejudice. This story offers a glimmer of hope — a future where a woman might just be able to shape her life around truth and love. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eAcclaimed by \u003ci\u003eVogue,\u003c\/i\u003e the \u003ci\u003eFinancial Times,\u003c\/i\u003e and many others, Chinelo Okparanta continues to distill “experience into something crystalline, stark but lustrous” (\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e). \u003ci\u003eUnder the Udala Trees\u003c\/i\u003e marks the further rise of a star whose “tales will break your heart open” (\u003ci\u003eNew York Daily News\u003c\/i\u003e). \u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Houghton Mifflin Harcourt","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47012353245424,"sku":"9780544003446","price":26.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780544003446_p0.jpg?v=1763712008","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780544003446","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}