01379nam a22001937a 4500 OSt 20260327091356.0 251203b |||||||| |||| 00| f eng d 9781529359237 GZK Library English FP2020/02 Dare, Abi The Girl with the Louding Voice New York : Penguin Random House LLC, 2020 259p., 15cmx21cm Adunni 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. Custom FP 0 1246 1246 0 0 Custom 0 0 FIC GZKL GZKL GEN 2025-12-03 0 FP2020/02 2025-1378 2025-12-03 03:39:00 2025-12-03 FP