Author: Abi Daré
# of Pages: 366 (hardback)
Genre: Adult, Contemporary
Rating: ★★★★☆
Synopsis: Despite the seemingly insurmountable obstacles in her path, Adunni never loses sight of her goal of escaping the life of poverty she was born into so that she can build the future she chooses for herself - and help other girls like her do the same. Her spirited determination to find joy and hope in even the most difficult circumstances imaginable will “break your heart and then put it back together again” (Jenna Bush Hager on The Today Show) even as Adunni shows us how one courageous young girl can inspire us all to reach for our dreams...and maybe even change the world.
Review: I wavered between 4 and 5 stars for a bit.
I read beforehand that this book was written with a dialect and was nervous about the flow of the writing, but it was actually no issue at all. Daré did a great job at capturing the voice of a 15 year old Nigerian girl with limited education's perspective on the world. I really enjoyed the beginning of the book when she is living in the her village, but the book lost a bit of its charm in the latter half of the book. This is partially due to how the meaningful messages on gender inequality and racial inequality were not as naturally blended into the story as they could have been.
Additionally, the second half of the story takes Adunni's journey to finding her "louding voice" into a direction I wasn't expecting. It's as if the first and second halves of the book should have been split into two different books. However, Adunni is a very likable protagonist, and the heart-wrenching events that occur moved me emotionally, so overall it was a very gripping read.
I would recommend this book!
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