The Girl with the Louding Voice
Author(s): Abi Dare
All you have are your words. Adunni is a fourteen-year-old Nigerian girl who knows what she wants: an education. As the only daughter of a broke father, she is a valuable commodity. Removed from school and sold as a third wife to an old man, Adunni's life amounts to this: four goats, two bags of rice, some chickens and a new TV. When unspeakable tragedy swiftly strikes in her new home, she is secretly sold as a domestic servant to a household in the wealthy enclaves of Lagos, where no one will talk about the strange disappearance of her predecessor, Rebecca. No one but Adunni... As a yielding daughter, a subservient wife, and a powerless servant, fourteen-year-old Adunni is repeatedly told that she is nothing. But Adunni won't be silenced. She is determined to find her voice - in a whisper, in song, in broken English - until she can speak for herself, for the girls like Rebecca who came before, and for all the girls who will follow.
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- : Hodder & Stoughton
- : Hodder & Stoughton Ltd
- : 0.3
- : 01 December 2020
- : 2.7 Centimeters X 15.6 Centimeters X 23.4 Centimeters
- : books
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- : Abi Dare
- : Paperback
- : 1
- : 823.92
- : 352