FMV Book Club's June Book Meeting: Under the Udala Trees by Chinelo Okparanta

Name: FMV Book Club's June Book Meeting: Under the Udala Trees by Chinelo Okparanta
Start: 2025-06-30T18:00:00+02:00
End: 2025-06-30T21:00:00+02:00
Location: Bergen Assembly

Schedule

Mon Jun 30 2025 at 06:00 pm to 09:00 pm

UTC+02:00

Location

Bergen Assembly | Bergen, HO

Welcome to June’s FMV Book Club meeting, celebrating Pride Month!
🌟 June's Book Pick: Under the Udala Trees by Chinelo Okparanta
About the book:
Inspired by Nigeria's folktales and its war, Under the Udala Trees is a deeply searching, powerful debut about the dangers of living and loving openly.
Ijeoma comes of age as her nation does; born before independence, she is eleven when civil war breaks out in the young republic of Nigeria. Sent away to safety, she meets another displaced child and they, star-crossed, fall in love. They are from different ethnic communities. They are also both girls.
When their love is discovered, Ijeoma learns that she will have to hide this part of herself. But there is a cost to living inside a lie.
As Edwidge Danticat has made personal the legacy of Haiti's political coming of age, Okparanta's Under the Udala Trees uses one woman's lifetime to examine the ways in which Nigerians continue to struggle toward selfhood. Even as their nation contends with and recovers from the effects of war and division, Nigerian lives are also wrecked and lost from taboo and prejudice. This story offers a glimmer of hope — a future where a woman might just be able to shape her life around truth and love.
📚 Special Offer:
Our team member Rodolfo Baldinotti can help you order the book through Norli Strandgaten bookstore.
To use this offer, send an email until the 18th of May to [email protected] with your full name and contact information.
Rodolfo will share your details with the bookstore, and you’ll be notified when your copy is ready for pick-up (payment directly at the store).
Haven't read the book? Come anyway!
Our meetings are about meaningful conversations inspired by the book's themes. Feel free to read up on the topic and join us for great discussions—and bring a friend!
📌 Join our book club here:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/382802586790525
See you there!