{"product_id":"the-private-joys-of-nnenna-maloney","title":"The Private Joys of Nnenna Maloney","description":"The Private Joys of Nnenna Maloney is a comic novel about Nnenna, a half-Nigerian teenager living with her beloved mother Joanie.\nAs Nnenna approaches womanhood she longs to connect with her Igbo-Nigerian culture. Her once close and tender relationship with her mother becomes strained as Nnenna begins to ask probing questions about her estranged father, who her mother who refuses to discuss.\nNnenna is asking big questions of how to 'be' when she doesn't know the whole of who she is. Meanwhile, Joanie wonders how to love when she has never truly been loved. Their lives are filled with a cast of characters asking similar questions about identity and belonging whilst grappling with the often hilarious encounters of everyday Manchester.\nOkechukwu Nzelu brings us a funny and heart-warming story that covers the expanse of race, gender, class, family and redemption, with a fresh and distinctive new voice.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 0349701059\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: BVV.0349701059.G\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Nzelu, Okechukwu\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: Missing dust cover, otherwise book is in good condition with some wear from normal use.  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Blue Vase Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43478183739453,"sku":"BVV.0349701059.G","price":20.06,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.bluevasebooks.com\/products\/the-private-joys-of-nnenna-maloney","provider":"Blue Vase Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}