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02510aam a2200325 i 4500 001 B0D5D612E8DA11EE8567518452ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240323010044 008 231216s2023||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 020 $a 0063116928 020 $a 9780063116924 040 $d IaEs $e rda $d SILO 100 1 $a Ishola-Ayodeji, Abi. 245 1 $a Patience Is a Subtle Thief. 264 1 $a New York, NY : $b Harpervia, $c 2023. 300 $a 375 pages ; 24 cm. 500 $a For as long as she can remember, Patience Adewale, the eldest daughter of Chief Kolade Adewale, has been waiting for confirmation that she is loved, that there is a place where she truly belongs. Patience lives a sheltered life within the secure walls of the familyâs mansion in Ibadan, but finds no comfort from her distant father and stepmother Modupe. Her only ally is her younger sister, yet even Margaretâs love and support cannot overcome Patienceâs insecurity and uncertainty. More than anything, Patience wants to know why her father and uncle banished her mother from their compound years agoâand whether her mother is even alive. Determined to discover the truth, Patience embarks on a desperate search to find her mother. Answers begin to surface when she moves to Lagos for university and unexpectedly reconnects with her cousin Kash. Kash and his friend Emeka are petty thieves with an opportunity to make a big score. To pull it off they need helpâand enlist Patience and Emekaâs straight-arrow brother, Chike, to become partners in their scheme. The thievesâ plan is to quit after this job. But unforeseen events lead to unexpected consequencesâand demand a price from Patience that may be too steep to pay. Suspenseful and evoking the subtleties of Nigerian life in an fresh and unexpected way, Patience Is a Subtle Thief is a heart-wrenching story of one young womanâs precarious journey to adulthood, and the risks and sacrifices it takes to follow her heart. 541 $d 20231218. 650 1 $a Belonging (Social psychology) $v Fiction. 650 $a Identity (Philosophical concept) $v Fiction. 650 4 $a Love $v Fiction. 650 $a Mothers and daughters $x Fiction. 650 4 $a Nigeria $v Fiction. 650 4 $a Sisters $v Fiction. 650 7 $a Theft $v Fiction. 650 4 $a Women college students $x Fiction. 655 4 $a Historical fiction. 941 $a 1 952 $l EBPE325 $d 20240323010335.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=B0D5D612E8DA11EE8567518452ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search