{"product_id":"ogadinma","title":"Ogadinma","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"BookPageMetadataSection__genres\" style=\"margin: 0.8rem 0px; , montserrat, arial, sans-serif;font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none;\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"BookPageMetadataSection__description\" style=\"margin: 0.8rem 0px; line-height: 1.37; , montserrat, arial, sans-serif;font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none;\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"TruncatedContent\" style=\"position: relative;\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"TruncatedContent__text TruncatedContent__text--large TruncatedContent__text--expanded\" style=\"overflow: hidden visible; max-height: none;\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"DetailsLayoutRightParagraph\" style=\"grid-template-columns: repeat(var(--num-right-col), minmax(0, 1fr)); margin-left: calc(-1 * var(--right-col-left-offset)); padding-left: var(--right-col-left-offset); gap: 1.7%;\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"DetailsLayoutRightParagraph__widthConstrained\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"Formatted\"\u003eOgadinma Or, Everything Will be All Right tells the story of the nave and trusting teenager Ogadinma as she battles against Nigeria's societal expectations in the 1980s. After a rape and unwanted pregnancy leave her exiled from her family in Kano, thwarting her plans to go to university, she is sent to her aunt's in Lagos and pressured into a marriage with an older man.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen their whirlwind romance descends into abuse and indignity, Ogadinma is forced to channel her independence and resourcefulness to escape a fate that appears all but inevitable. Ogadinma, the UK debut by Ukamaka Olisakwe, introduces a heroine for whom it is impossible not to root, and announces the author as a gifted chronicler of the patriarchal experience.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn intimate and dazzling exploration of the life and times of a young Nigerian woman whose move to the capital city of Lagos leads to a series of encounters, which are by turns disorienting, revelatory and tragic. Christopher Merrill, author of Self-Portrait with Dogwood\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWritten in vivid, engaging prose, this is the story of one womans journey to independence. Chinelo Okparanta, author of Under the Udala Trees and Happiness, Like Water: Stories\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Masobe Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52259366797593,"sku":"569-1-item","price":14000.0,"currency_code":"NGN","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1000\/7737\/1673\/files\/IMG_3050-2-scaled.jpg?v=1776895413","url":"https:\/\/shopbellabooks.com\/products\/ogadinma","provider":"Bellabooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}