Description

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Stunning in its style and its deeply felt characters, this
is a perfect book club book, centered on sisterhood, family ties, and a mother
finding the courage to save her children and herself

Chika Unigwe is a celebrated and highly acclaimed Nigerian-born
Igbo author, whose honors include winning the Nigeria Literature Prize, the Sylt Fellowship for African Writers, and
many other distinctions

Chika is a well-established author with a dedicated audience.
Her best-loved books include On Black Sisters Street, which won the 2012
Nigeria Prize for Literature, and a collection of short stories entitled Better
Never Than Late, nominated for an NAACP Awards for Outstanding Literary
Work

Promotion will include outreach to the large Nigerian
diaspora community in Georgia, as well as Southern indies and outlets such as Black Books Matter, the Nigeria
Review of Books, and Southern outlets and festivals from the Southern Review of
Books to Southern Living