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Like Home by Louisa Onome

Like Home

by Louisa Onome
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  • Feb 23, 2021, 416 pages
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  • Jul 2024, 416 pages
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"I don't know. Mom just started calling me that one day, maybe literally the day Dad left to go to Calgary for work. She'd never call me that if he was here." There's a Chi-­chi in every Nigerian Igbo family, and I don't know why my mom is trying to turn me into Chi-­chi when I already have a cousin who claimed the name.

"It doesn't suit you."

"That's what I'm saying! And she was like, 'Chi-­chi, we need to think about getting you a bigger bra.' If you heard how she enunciated 'bra.' And I was like, I mean, I didn't even say nothing. Just ran. How awkward is that?"

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