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The Middle Daughter
''The Middle Daughter'' is a social novel written by Chika Unigwe and published by Dzanc Books in 2023. Unigwe drew her inspiration from the story of Hades and Persephone. Plot summary After Udodi died, the family thought their troubles were over, but they were wrong. When Nani, who's seventeen, lost her sister and dad one after the other, her life got really tough. Caught in grief, Nani finds herself isolated and misunderstood by her mother and sister. In the midst of her misery, she is drawn to a preacher who claims to have a direct line to God. His promises of belonging and understanding offer Nani a glimmer of hope. He seemed to offer her hope and a place to belong. But the more Nani got involved with him, the more she drifted away from her family. As time went on, Nani grew apart from her family, who were once very close. She ended up in a bad marriage where her husband treated her badly. She loved her children, but she was scared to leave because of them. Still, Nani knew ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chika Unigwe
Chika Nina Unigwe (born 12 June 1974) is a Nigerian-born Igbo novelist who writes in English and Dutch. She was the winner of the Nigeria Prize for Literature in 2012 for her novel '' On Black Sisters' Street''. In April 2014, she was selected for the Hay Festival's Africa39 list of 39 Sub-Saharan African writers aged under 40. She is on the Board of Trustees of pan-African literary initiative Writivism, and set up the Awele Creative Trust in Nigeria to support young writers. She has served as a Man Booker International judge and chair of the judges for the Caine Prize for African Writing. In 2023, she was made a Knight of the Order of the Crown (Belgium). Previously based in Belgium, she now lives in the United States. Biography Chika Unigwe was born in 1974 in Enugu, the capital city of Enugu State, southeastern Nigeria, the sixth of her parents' seven children. She attended secondary school at Federal Government Girls' college in Abuja and obtained a BA in English in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |