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Night Dancer

Night Dancer

Author(s): Chika Unigwe

Location(s): Nigeria

Genre(s): Fiction

Era(s): Modern

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Mma has just buried her mother, and now she is alone.

She has been left everything.

But she’s also inherited her mother’s bad name.

A bold, brash woman, the only thing her mother refused to discuss was her past. Why did she flee her family and bring her daughter to a new town when she was a baby? What was she escaping from?

Abandoned now, Mma has no knowledge of her father or her family – but she is desperate to find out.

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A moving and prescient novel on one girl’s search for belonging, moving across the landscape of Nigeria’s recent past.

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