House Woman: Adorah Nworah In-Conversation with Stephanie Feldman

Fri Jun 09 2023 at 06:30 pm to 08:00 pm

A Novel Idea on Passyunk | Philadelphia

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House Woman: Adorah Nworah In-Conversation with Stephanie Feldman
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Join us for an evening with Unnamed Press authors Adorah Nworah and Stephanie Feldman in celebration of Nworah's debut novel House Woman.
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Join us for an evening with Unnamed Press authors Adorah Nworah and Stephanie Feldman in celebration of Nworah's debut novel House Woman.


Friday, June 9th 6:30pm at A Novel Idea

Suggested $5 Donation


When Ikemefuna is put on a plane from Lagos to Texas, she anticipates her newly arranged All-American life: a handsome husband, a beautiful red-brick mansion in Sugar Land, pizza parlors, and dance classes.



Desperate to please, she'll happily cater to her family's needs. But Ikemefuna soon discovers what it actually means to live with her in-laws. Demands for a grandson grow urgent, her every move comes under scrutiny, and the America she imagined from Nigeria shimmers almost as distantly through the locked windows of the Sugar Land house, unattainable. As Ikemefuna finds there's no way out, her new husband Nna, a corporate attorney, grapples with the influence of his parents against his own increasing affection for her, juggling their deeply traditional expectations with his own.



As family secrets boil to the surface, Ikemefuna must decide how to scrape herself out of an impossibly sticky situation: a marriage succumbing to generational cycles of pain and silence. In the end, she may be carrying the greatest secret of all. An unforgettably delicious thriller, this is the story of a woman trapped in a dangerous web of conflicting desires, melting in the Texas heat.



About the Authors

Stephanie Feldman is the author of The Angel of Losses and Saturnalia. She is a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection, winner of the Crawford Fantasy Award, and finalist for the Mythopoeic and Locus Awards. She is co-editor of the multi-genre anthology Who Will Speak for America? and her stories and essays have appeared in Asimov's Science Fiction, Catapult Magazine, Electric Literature, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, The Rumpus, and Vol. 1 Brooklyn. She lives outside Philadelphia with her family.


Adorah Nworah is an Igbo writer from South-East Nigeria. Her stories have been published in AFREADA and adda magazine. Her short stories, "The Bride" and "Broken English" made the shortlist for the 2019 Commonwealth Writers Short Story Prize and the longlist for the 2018 Short Story Day Africa Prize respectively. She lives in Philadelphia, where she practices real estate finance law and is cat mom to her handsome Napoleon cat. House Woman is her debut novel.

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A Novel Idea on Passyunk, 1726 East Passyunk Avenue, Philadelphia, United States

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