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Second Class Citizen

Buchi Emecheta

Paperback (George Braziller Inc., Feb. 17, 1983)

The classic tale of a Nigerian woman who overcomes strict tribal domination only to encounter the hardships of immigration. Available again.In the late 1960’s, Adah, a spirited and resourceful woman manages to move her family to London. Seeking an independent life for herself and her children she encounters racism and hard truths about being a new citizen. “Second Class Citizen pales a lot of academic feminist writing into insignificance.” –The Guardian“Emecheta’s prose has a shimmer of originality, of English being reinvented....Issues of survival lie inherent in her material and give her tales weight.” --John Updike

Second Class Citizen

Buchi Emecheta

eBook (George Braziller Inc, )

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Second-Class Citizen

Buchi Emecheta

Hardcover (Braziller Books, Feb. 17, 1983)

The poignant story of a resourceful Nigerian woman who overcomes the strict tribal domination of women and countless setbacks to achieve an independent life for herself and her children.

Second Class Citizen

Buchi Emecheta

Paperback (Gardners Books, Dec. 31, 1993)

Adah's desire to write is pitted against the forces of an egotistical and unfeeling husband and a largely indifferent white society.

Second-Class Citizen

Buchi Emecheta

Hardcover (George Braziller, Aug. 1, 1975)

Adah, a young Ibo woman, in London with her student husband, determines to hold her own against her people's and her husband's demands for womanly subservience and the pressures of an unsympathetic white society