Chinelo the veil on homosexuality with her story telling and opened a new perspective to religion while still describing sexual intimacy with such graphic detail that it will make you blush, expertly straddling the line between spirituality and sexuality. It’s a story of a shy young girl coming into her own, a story of humans becoming unfeeling to death and destruction and how grief can turn people into unrecognizable versions of themselves.Ĭhinelo is bold and not afraid to poke at the things we would pretend don’t exist and want to shy away from. In this brilliant novel, Chinelo Okparanta manages to take on the horror of the Nigerian civil war and like Adichie in Half of a yellow sun she focuses on people whose lives were changed by the war rather than on the war itself. Under the Udala Trees is a coming of age story like no other, one that shocks us, scares us, tugs at our heart strings and lifts the veil on a lot of the issues we pretend to forget.
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