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02124aam a2200289 i 4500 001 0C428BEA902811EAAF12331197128E48 003 SILO 005 20200507010018 007 n 008 190725s2020||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 010 $a 2019029366 020 $a 1524746088 020 $a 9781524746087 040 $d TxAuBib $e rda $d SILO 100 1 $a Daré, Abi. $t The girl with the louding voice. 245 14 $a The girl with the louding voice : $b a novel / $c Abi Dar. 264 1 $a [New York] : $b Dutton, $c [2020] 300 $a 1 online resource. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references. 520 $a "A powerful, emotional debut novel told in the unforgettable voice of a young Nigerian woman who is trapped in a life of servitude but determined to get an education so that she can escape and choose her own future. Adunni is a fourteen-year-old Nigerian girl who knows what she wants: an education. This, her mother has told her, is the only way to get a "louding voice"-the ability to speak for herself and decide her own future. But instead, Adunni's father sells her to be the third wife of a local man who is eager for her to bear him a son and heir. When Adunni runs away to the city, hoping to make a better life, she finds that the only other option before her is servitude to a wealthy family. As a yielding daughter, a subservient wife, and a powerless slave, Adunni is told, by words and deeds, that she is nothing. But while misfortunes might muffle her voice for a time, they cannot mute it. And when she realizes that she must stand up not only for herself, but for other girls, for the ones who came before her and were lost, and for the next girls, who will inevitably follow; she finds the resolve to speak, however she can-in a whisper, in song, in broken English-until she is heard"-- $c Provided by publisher. 541 $d 20200221. 650 7 $a Bildungsromans. 941 $a 3 952 $l CGPC482 $d 20220526011928.0 952 $l SJPB094 $d 20200903010733.0 952 $l LBPB837 $d 20200507010545.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=0C428BEA902811EAAF12331197128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search