This Motherless Land by Nikki May
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altamira16Funke is a girl growing up in Lagos, Nigeria with her brother, mother, and father when a car accident tears her family apart.
She is shipped off to Britain to live with her mother's family, but her mother's sister is racist. Fortunately, her cousin Liv tries to make sure she has a nice time even though the family insists on calling her Katherine instead of Funke.
The chapters switch back and forth between Liv and Funke's viewpoints.
There is often important information hidden from one or the other main character, and they both end up suffering due to this.
Some of the plot points were obvious. The Stone family in Britain was a little too vapid and racist.
There were a number of phrases in Yoruba sprinkled throughout the book.
Nikki May is an Anglo-Nigerian author. She was born in Bristol and raised in Lagos. Her main character, Funke, has a parrot and a bicycle at the beginning of the story, just like May had when she was a child.
She is shipped off to Britain to live with her mother's family, but her mother's sister is racist. Fortunately, her cousin Liv tries to make sure she has a nice time even though the family insists on calling her Katherine instead of Funke.
The chapters switch back and forth between Liv and Funke's viewpoints.
There is often important information hidden from one or the other main character, and they both end up suffering due to this.
Some of the plot points were obvious. The Stone family in Britain was a little too vapid and racist.
There were a number of phrases in Yoruba sprinkled throughout the book.
Nikki May is an Anglo-Nigerian author. She was born in Bristol and raised in Lagos. Her main character, Funke, has a parrot and a bicycle at the beginning of the story, just like May had when she was a child.
