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Purple Hibiscus

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Start date: July 1, 2018

Finish date: July 29, 2018

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Dec 19, 2011 Richard Derus rated it did not like it

Rating: 0.125* of five

Men beat their wives and children. Politics is a dirty business. And the Catholic Church is bad. The end.

Who cares. Seen it, read it heard it, many times before.

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Nov 01, 2010 Meg - A Bookish Affair rated it really liked it

Shelves: fiction

"Purple Hibiscus" is the story of Kambili, a young teenager living under the thumb of her father who seems to only be driven by religion. He is incredibly hard on Kambili and her mother and brother. They don't have much freedom if her father does not explicitly give them permission. Kambili wants something more but she is afraid. She finally gets a chance to be outside of her father's influence when she goes to live with her aunt.

This book is about many things but to me, the thing that it was ab ...more

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Mar 02, 2015 Samantha A rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

“It was what Aunty Ifeoma did to my cousins, I realized then, setting higher and higher jumps for them in the way she talked to them, in what she expected of them. She did it all the time believing they would scale the rod. And they did. It was different for Jaja and me. We did not scale the rod because we believed we could, we scaled it because we were terrified that we couldn't.”

This book was absolutely incredible. I have decided to read Adichie in publication order and considering this is he ...more

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Sep 28, 2017 Kay Dee (what is your storygraph name? mine is in my bio. join me!) Meadows rated it it was ok

guess i'll put my answer as my review.

i thought it was only OK. i was bored at the beginning and a lil confused. it felt like i was plopped down in the middle of the story and i had no idea who the folks were or why they were reacting the way they were.

i only finished it because i enjoyed her short nonfiction works that i decided to read. i also enjoyed her ted talk so i was like let me try again.

i was disappointed that the entire story was told through the eyes of a teenage girl. a teenage gir ...more

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