The Private Joys of Nnenna Maloney

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As Nnenna approaches womanhood she starts to connect with her Igbo-Nigerian culture. Her close relationship with her mother becomes strained as she probes for information about her father who her mother refuses to discuss. Each chapter begins with a biblical quote which harks back to the beginning of Maurice and Joanie's relationship - meeting in a church group in a café in Cambridge - but is really Nnenna's diary headings which she is trying to hide from her mother's prying eyes. Nnenna is asking big questions of how to 'be' when she doesn't know who she is