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TOMORROW I BECOME A WOMAN - AIWANOSE ODAFEN KAR...

'This story of love  loss and resilient female friendship is a definite must read.' Tola Rotimi
Abraham  author of Black Sunday'Aiwanose Odafen's novel has entered popular feminist
discourse.' Afrocritik On a Sunday in 1978  Obianuju meets Chigozie at church - the perfect
place for an upstanding girl to find a husband. Uju is in her last months studying economics at
the University of Lagos  Gozie is a journalist ten years her senior. Crucially  he is Igbo and
meets her mother's approval. Months later  they are married  and Uju's life is set on a new
course. Over the next two decades  Uju and her friends Adaugo and Chinelo must navigate traumas
both personal and political as they learn how to live on their own terms in a traditional
society beset by turmoil.Tomorrow I Become a Woman is a nuanced and powerful story of
friendship and resilience  set against the backdrop of a fast-changing Nigeria.'Searing and
beautifully rendered.' Koa Beck  author of White Feminism'Unflinching and cuts to the core.'
Chika Unigwe  author of On Black Sisters Street'An accomplished and emotional triumph.' Louise
Beech  author of How To Be Brave

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