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Adunni is 14 when she is sold into marriage by her father to a much older man who is in need of a son. All Adunni has ever dreamed of is going to school to become a teacher, so she can be a person of value. Instead, she is the third wife of a man who rapes her three nights a week hoping she will produce the male child his other two wives have not given him. After a tragedy befalls one of the other wives, Adunni runs away. She gets a job as a house maid for a wealthy family in Lagos, but the “age
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Oct 13, 2020
superawesomekt
marked it as dnf
I can see why this gets a lot of attention but I am abandoning this for a few reasons:
1) I am already familiar with the issue of child marriage and after starting this book I think I would rather read non-fiction on this topic. (If you're interested too, a good book to start on international women's health and social issues is Melinda Gates' excellent book The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World.
2) The dialect writing is unrelenting and not really enjoyable. The actual writing ...more
1) I am already familiar with the issue of child marriage and after starting this book I think I would rather read non-fiction on this topic. (If you're interested too, a good book to start on international women's health and social issues is Melinda Gates' excellent book The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World.
2) The dialect writing is unrelenting and not really enjoyable. The actual writing ...more
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