Stunning in its style and its deeply felt characters, this
is a perfect book club book, centered on sisterhood, family ties, and a mother
finding the courage to save her children and herself

Chika Unigwe is a celebrated and highly acclaimed Nigerian-born
Igbo author, whose honors include winning the Nigeria Literature Prize, the Sylt Fellowship for African Writers, and
many other distinctions

Chika is a well-established author with a dedicated audience.
Her best-loved books include On Black Sisters Street, which won the 2012
Nigeria Prize for Literature, and a collection of short stories entitled Better
Never Than Late, nominated for an NAACP Awards for Outstanding Literary
Work

Promotion will include outreach to the large Nigerian
diaspora community in Georgia, as well as Southern indies and outlets such as Black Books Matter, the Nigeria
Review of Books, and Southern outlets and festivals from the Southern Review of
Books to Southern Living

Udodi's death was the beginning of the raging storm but at that moment, we thought that the worst had already happened, and that life would treat us with more kindness.

When seventeen-year-old Nani loses her older sister and then her father in quick succession, her world spins off its axis. Isolated and misunderstood by her grieving mother and sister, she's drawn to an itinerant preacher, a handsome self-proclaimed man of God who offers her a new place to belong. All too soon, Nani finds herself estranged from her family, tethered to her abusive husband by children she loves but cannot fully comprehend. She must find the courage to break free and wrestle her life back--without losing what she loves most.

A modern reimagining of the myth of Hades and Persephone within a Nigerian family, The Middle Daughter charts Nani's journey to freedom and homecoming.