The private joys of Nnenna Maloney
Nzelu, Okechukwu2020
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'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.
Main title:
The private joys of Nnenna Maloney / Okechukwu Nzelu.
Author:
Nzelu, Okechukwu, author
Imprint:
London : Dialogue Books, 2020.
Collation:
310 pages ; 20 cm
Notes:
Originally published: 2019.
ISBN:
9780349701035 (pbk)
Dewey class:
823.92FICTION942.7331
Local class:
FIC/NZE
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
2997391