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The Girl with the Louding Voice

Abi Daré

Start date: July 1, 2025

Finish date: August 31, 2025

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May 22, 2020 Valerie rated it really liked it

I almoste could not read this, as the sense of impending doom I felt throughout the narrative as Adunni is stalked relentlessly by ill fortune was a little much for me right now. But the writing style was so engaging, and the story reminded me of Little Bee, or Educated.

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Mar 27, 2021 Sheila rated it really liked it · review of another edition

My in person book group decided not to read this one from a choice of two debut novels, reasons included the possibe difficulties with dialect! I was dissappointed by this and read it anyway. I had read reviews which said it preached down to readers, and asked why the author had invented a new broken English for the Yoruba speaking girl narrator of the story. Nigeria has a pidgeon which I suppose shecould have used but for me at least that always remained more unintelligible than trying to chat ...more

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Jan 08, 2021 Joanne rated it really liked it

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Adunni wants more than anything to be a teacher, but when her mother becomes ill, her father removes her from school to care for her mother. When her mother dies, she never returns, because she has to care for her father and brothers. Then her father decides to sell her, at age 14, to an older, more wealthy man, as his third wife. When something very bad happens, she ends up being trafficked to Lagos, as a domestic slave in an abusive household. Yet she rises above it all to achieve the "louding ...more

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