Status Updates From Under the Udala Trees

Not sure how I feel about this yet. It remains utterly emotionless, the war wasn’t necessary for the story beyond the opening chapter (I still have no idea why it happened), and there was no build up in the relationship between Ijeoma and Amina. Within two short chapters they went from barely talking to a sexual relationship…at age 12. And why is the “grammar school teacher” never given an actual name?

Este es el equivalente a mandar al hijo gay al colegio militar para que se “enderece”.

So far the tone of this is quite flat. The opening few chapters as war breaks out were extremely interesting, but we seem to have already left this issue. And there are SO many Bible verses, which I was not expecting.

Okparanta schafft durch ihre einfühlsame klare Sprache, starke plastische Bilder, die einen Sog erzeugen.

"Wie die Schmetterlinge hatten auch wir es nicht eilig, wir bewegten uns träge, als wäre die Luft immer lau und die Sonne ein Streicheln auf unserer Haut. Als könnte man beides nur genießen, wenn man sich Zeit ließ." 10