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A stunning, inspiring new novel from Abi Daré, New York Times bestselling author of The Girl with the Louding VoiceWhen Tia accidentally overhears a whispered conversation between her mother—terminally ill and lying in a hospital bed in Port Harcourt, Nigeria—and her aunt, the repercussions will send her on a desperate quest to uncover a secret her mother has been hiding for nearly two decades.
Back home in Lagos a few days later, Adunni, a plucky fourteen-year-old runaway, is lying show more awake in Tia’s guest room. Having escaped from her rural village in a desperate bid to seek a better future, she’s finally found refuge with Tia, who has helped her enroll in school. It’s always been Adunni’s dream to get an education, and she’s bursting with excitement.
Suddenly, there’s a horrible knocking at the front gate. . . .
It’s only the beginning of a harrowing ordeal that will see Tia forced to make a terrible choice between protecting Adunni or finally learning the truth behind the secret her mother has hidden from her. And Adunni will learn that her “louding voice,” as she calls it, is more important than ever, as she must advocate to save not only herself but all the young women of her home village, Ikati.
If she succeeds, she may transform Ikati into a place where girls are allowed to claim the bright futures they deserve—and shout their stories to the world. show less
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This is a continuation of "The Girl with the Louding Voice". Adunni has been rescued from her job as a housemaid of the cruel woman in Lagos by Tia, an educated and successful Nigerian woman whose mother is dying. Tia has her secrets as her mother forced her to give up a child she had as a teenager.
Adunni is under the care of Tia and is heading for school which makes her extremely happy; however, she has been accused of killing another wife of her husband and must return to her native rural village to undergo some kind of ceremony.
Much of the book is about her experience in this village and Tia's experience seeing the different in the rural areas and her own sophisticated life. The language is the same as the other book with Adunni show more using a form of broken English which at times makes it humorous and other times just awkward.
It seems the purpose of the book is to show the situation of many African girls and the hope of a gradual awkaning into using the "roar" to stand up against the old ways. show less
Adunni is under the care of Tia and is heading for school which makes her extremely happy; however, she has been accused of killing another wife of her husband and must return to her native rural village to undergo some kind of ceremony.
Much of the book is about her experience in this village and Tia's experience seeing the different in the rural areas and her own sophisticated life. The language is the same as the other book with Adunni show more using a form of broken English which at times makes it humorous and other times just awkward.
It seems the purpose of the book is to show the situation of many African girls and the hope of a gradual awkaning into using the "roar" to stand up against the old ways. show less
I found this to be a very disappointing sequel to The Girl with the Louding Voice. Although it touches on many important issues, it didn't do so in a way that I found either enjoyable or thought-provoking. If it hadn't been a book club book, I'd have been tempted not to finish.
follow up to The Girl with the Louding Voice
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- Canonical title
- And So I Roar
- Original publication date
- 2024
- People/Characters
- Adunni; Tia Dada; Ken Dada; Boma; Kike; Kayus (show all 16); Zenab; Enitan; Akala; Labake; Efe; Iya; Idowu; Ade Enahoro; Hauwa; Semi
- Important places
- Ikati Village, Nigeria, Africa; Lagos, Nigeria, Africa; Port Harcourt, Nigeria. Africa; Goma
- Epigraph
- A good education can never be good enough
when you have a bad name.
—THE VERY IMPORTANT SMALL BOOK OF LIFE'S LITTLE WISDOM BY ADUNNI (THE ONLY EDITION, WRITTEN INSIDE LOCKUP IN IKATI VILLAGE) - Dedication
- To girls like Adunni, who face daily struggles for life's basic necessities: May the world listen, learn, and be transformed by your unwavering, courage, strength, and resilience. May you roar, always, with the indomitable sp... (show all)irit of a lion, and may the legacies of the unsung heroes who stand by you inspire a generation to come.
And to A & D, who are the guiding lights behind every dream I pursue:
May you always know the immeasurable depth of your worth. - First words
- I used to tell people my mother gave birth to a thousand books and one girl.
- Quotations
- Everyone's past is a pocket of untruths.
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- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)It is the beginning of everything . . . of which there is no end.
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- Lemmie,Asha; Stringfellow,Tara M.; Garvin,Eileen; Abgaje-Williams, Ore; Harris, Kai; Wilkerson, Charmaine
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- English
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