This motherless land
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New York ; Mariner Books, [2024].
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Central Library - New Fiction - New BooksMay, N.Checked OutNovember 19, 2024
East Side Library - New Fiction - New BooksMay, N.Checked OutNovember 22, 2024
Forest Ave. Library - New Fiction - New BooksMay, N.Checked OutNovember 22, 2024
Franklin Ave. Library - New Fiction - New BooksMay, N.Checked OutNovember 22, 2024

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Published
New York ; Mariner Books, [2024].
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Book
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342 pages ; 24 cm
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English

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"From the acclaimed author of Wahala, a "vibrant" (Charmaine Wilkerson) decolonial retelling of Mansfield Park, exploring identity, culture, race, and love. Quiet Funke is happy in Nigeria. She loves her art teacher mother, her professor father, and even her annoying little brother (most of the time). But when tragedy strikes, she's sent to England, a place she knows only from her mother's stories. To her dismay, she finds the much-lauded estate dilapidated, the food tasteless, the weather grey. Worse still, her mother's family are cold and distant. With one exception: her cousin Liv. Free-spirited Liv has always wanted to break free of her joyless family. She becomes fiercely protective of her little cousin, and her warmth and kindness give Funke a place to heal. The two girls grow into adulthood the closest of friends. But the choices their mothers made haunt Funke and Liv and when a second tragedy occurs their friendship is torn apart. Against the long shadow of their shared family history, each woman will struggle to chart a path forward, separated by country, misunderstanding, and ambition. Moving between Somerset and Lagos over the course of two decades, This Motherless Land is a sweeping examination of identity, culture, race, and love that asks how we find belonging and whether a family's generational wrongs can be righted."--,Provided by publisher.

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

May, N., & Austen, J. (2024). This motherless land (First U.S. edition.). Mariner Books.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

May, Nikki and Jane Austen. 2024. This Motherless Land. Mariner Books.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

May, Nikki and Jane Austen. This Motherless Land Mariner Books, 2024.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

May, Nikki,, and Jane Austen. This Motherless Land First U.S. edition., Mariner Books, 2024.

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