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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Daré, Abi, author.     Subjects     Teenage girls -- Fiction.     Women -- Nigeria -- Social conditions -- Fiction.     Nigeria -- Fiction.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Daré, Abi, author.       by title:      The girl with the lo...         MARC Display

The girl with the louding voice : a novel / Abi Daré. by Daré, Abi, author. [New York] : Dutton, 2020. Subjects Teenage girls -- Fiction.   Women -- Nigeria -- Social conditions -- Fiction.   Nigeria -- Fiction. ISBN:  9781524746025 (hardcover) : 1524746029 (hardcover) 978152476094 (paperback) : Description:  368 pages ; 24 cm Requests:  0 Summary:  "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"--   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii Kai Public Library Adult Fiction Dare Checked In Add Copy to MyList Hawaii State Library Adult Fiction Dare Checked In Add Copy to MyList Hilo Public Library Adult Fiction Dare Checked In Add Copy to MyList Kalihi-Palama Public Library Adult Fiction Dare Checked In Add Copy to MyList Kapolei Public Library Adult Fiction Dare Checked In Add Copy to MyList Kealakekua Public Library Adult Fiction Dare Checked In Add Copy to MyList Lanai P/S Library Adult Fiction Dare Checked In Add Copy to MyList Lihue Public Library Adult Fiction Dare Checked In Add Copy to MyList Makawao Public Library Adult Fiction Dare Checked In Add Copy to MyList Mililani Public Library Adult Fiction Dare Checked In Add Copy to MyList More Results: 1 2 Next

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