384 pages
Published February 4, 2020 by Dutton Books
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From Goodreads:
A powerful, emotional
debut novel told in the unforgettable voice of a young Nigerian woman
who is trapped in a life of servitude but determined to fight for her
dreams and choose her own future.
Adunni is a fourteen-year-old
Nigerian girl who knows what she wants: an education. This, her mother
has told her, is the only way to get a “louding voice”—the ability to
speak for herself and decide her own future. But instead, Adunni's
father sells her to be the third wife of a local man who is eager for
her to bear him a son and heir.
When Adunni runs away to the
city, hoping to make a better life, she finds that the only other option
before her is servitude to a wealthy family. As a yielding daughter, a
subservient wife, and a powerless slave, Adunni is told, by words and
deeds, that she is nothing.
But while misfortunes might muffle
her voice for a time, they cannot mute it. And when she realizes that
she must stand up not only for herself, but for other girls, for the
ones who came before her and were lost, and for the next girls, who will
inevitably follow; she finds the resolve to speak, however she can—in a
whisper, in song, in broken English—until she is heard.
This sounds like it would be a great book club read. Some friends and I have been discussing starting a virtual one.
ReplyDeleteIt definitely would!! I kept thinking "Who has read this?? I NEED to talk about this" several times in the book!!
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