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  • Bibliography:
    3 Books
  • First Book:
    August 2013
  • Latest Book:
    July 2022
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Book List in Order: 3 titles



  • Here are Nigerian women at home and transplanted to the United States, building lives out of longing and hope, faith and doubt, the struggle to stay and the mandate to leave, the burden and strength of love. Here are characters faced with dangerous d...



  • Inspired by Nigeria’s folktales and its war, UNDER THE UDALA TREES is a deeply searching, powerful debut about the dangers of living and loving openly. Ijeoma comes of age as her nation does; born before independence, she is eleven when civil ...



  • From the award-winning author of Under the Udala Trees and Happiness, Like Water comes a brilliant, provocative, up-to-the-minute satirical novel about a young white man’s education and miseducation in contemporary America. Harry Sylvester Bird ...




Award-Winning Books by Chinelo Okparanta

Happiness, Like Water
2014 Lambda Literary Award -- Lesbian Fiction


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Chinelo Okparanta has published 3 books.

Chinelo Okparanta does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Harry Sylvester Bird, was published in July 2022.

The first book by Chinelo Okparanta, Happiness, Like Water, was published in August 2013.

No. Chinelo Okparanta does not write books in series.