The girl with the louding voice : a novel / Abi Daré.
Record details
- ISBN: 1524746029 : HRD
- ISBN: 9781524746025 : HRD
- ISBN: 9781524746025
- ISBN: 1524746029
- Physical Description: pages cm
- Publisher: [New York] : Dutton, [2020]
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Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references. |
Summary, etc.: | "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 get an education so that she can escape 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"-- Provided by publisher. |
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Genre: | Bildungsromans. |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Douglas Library of Hebron.
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Douglas Library of Hebron | FIC DAR (Text) | 33400148849477 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
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Author Notes
The Girl with the Louding Voice : A Novel
Abi Daré is the author of The Girl with the Louding Voice , which was a New York Times bestseller, a #ReadWithJenna Today Show book club pick, and an Indie Next Pick. She grew up in Lagos, Nigeria and went on to study law at the University of Wolverhampton and has an MSc in International Project Management from Glasgow Caledonian University as well as an MA in Creative Writing at Birkbeck, University of London. Abi lives in Essex, UK with her husband and two daughters, who inspired her to write her debut novel.