Her plan is to go to her parents’ house in Aba and see if things are better there while Ijeoma stays with friends in Nnewi she'll send for the girl to join her when it's safe.
Okparanta is masterful at articulating the pressures living through endless violence has on each of her characters' psyches Adaora crumbles under the harshness of the ongoing war. But Adaora’s love for her daughter is limitless when Ijeoma was born early, for example, Adaora gave herself headaches learning about nutrition to make sure her baby grew healthy. Ijeoma’s father, Uzo, is dead, destroyed in a bombing raid that nearly decimated their village, and her mother is quickly unraveling, unable to cope with the ongoing war and famine. In 1968, during the second year of the war between Biafra and Nigeria, 11-year-old Ijeoma is sent away from her home in Ojoto for safety by her mother, Adaora.
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