The Middle Daughter

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