01318nam a22001697a 4500003000400000005001700004008004100021020001800062040001600080041001300096082001400109100001400123245003600137260004800173300002300221520090400244OSt20260327091356.0251203b        |||||||| |||| 00| f eng d  a9781529359237  cGZK Library  aEnglish   aFP2020/02  aDare, Abi  aThe Girl with the Louding Voice  aNew York :bPenguin Random House LLC,c2020  a259p., c15cmx21cm  aAdunni is a fourteen-year-old Nigerian girl who knows what she wants : An education

As the only daughter of a broke father, she is a valubale commodity. removed from school and sold as a third wife to an old man, Adunni's life amounts to this : four goats, two bags of rice, some chickens and a new TV. When unspeakable tragedy swiftly strikes her new home, she is secretly sold as a domestic servant to a household in the wealthy enclaves of Lagos, where no one will talk about the strange disappearance of her predecessor, Rebecca. No one but Adunni...

As a yielding daughter, a subservient wife, and a powerless servant, Adunni is repeatedly told that she is nothing. But Adunni won't be silenced. She is determined to find her voice - in a whisper, in song, in broken English - until she can speak for herself, for the girls like Rebecca who came before, and for all the girls who will follow.