We Were Girls Once Poison Ivy But Nagisa decides she won’t

But Nagisa decides she won’t let it get her down

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Seven critical essays on the novel’s major themes: gender

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We Were Girls Once Poison Ivy But Nagisa decides she won’tFrom Aiwanose Odafen, the author of Tomorrow I Become a Woman, an ambitious, moving novel that charts three women's shifting relationships against a modernising, volatile Nigeria in the 1990s and beyond. We were three: complete, as we were meant to be Ego, Zina and Eriife were always destined to be best friends, ever since their grandmothers sat next to each other on a dusty bus to Lagos in the late 1940s, forging a bond that would last generations.