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title: "Before the Mango Ripens"
author: "Afabwaje Kurian"
genre: "Fiction, Contemporary / Diasporic Literature"
category: "Literary Fiction"
themes: "Faith and Conflict;Cultural Clash (Nigeria vs. America);Disillusionment;Search for Identity and Belonging;Racial Tensions"
asin: "1950539997"
amazon_link: "https://www.amazon.com/Before-Mango-Ripens-Afabwaje-Kurian/dp/1950539997"
bookshop_link: "https://bookshop.org/p/books/before-the-mango-ripens-afabwaje-kurian/061d73a4ea252d61"
source_url: "https://marciebooks.co/?search=Before%20the%20Mango%20Ripens"
data_license: "CC BY-NC 4.0"
---

# Before the Mango Ripens

## Context
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