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THIS MOTHERLESS LAND
By: Nikki May
This Motherless Land Is a Beautifully Written Retelling of Jane Austenβs Mansfield Park That Explores Trauma, Family, and Love, Set in Nigeria and the UK
Mariner Books
November 2024
On Sale: October 29, 2024
304 pages
ISBN: 0063084295
EAN: 9780063084292
Kindle: B0CQHNXR5V
Hardcover / e-Book
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Women's Fiction Historical | Literature and Fiction Literary
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.
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