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"[This] love story has hypnotic power."- The New Yorker
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. But when their love is discovered, Ijeoma learns that she will have to hide this part of herself-and there is a cost to living inside a lie.
Publisher: Mariner Books; Reprint edition (September 20, 2016)
Paperback: 336 pages
ISBN-10: 0544811798
ISBN-13: 978-0544811799