· Adunni is a year-old girl who lives in a small town several hours’ drive from Lagos. Although she is a minor, she is about to be illegally married off to raise money for her father. Her bride Estimated Reading Time: 5 mins. · Published in February by Dutton in the U.S. and forthcoming in March by Sceptre in the U.K., The Girl With the Louding Voice follows Adunni as she is sold to be the third wife of a local man who is eager to have a son. When Adunni runs away to Lagos, dangers await her as she works as a maid for a wealthy bltadwin.ruted Reading Time: 5 mins. · Nigerian author Abi Daré on her bestselling book, ‘The Girl with the Louding Voice’. Aramide Akintimehin | Ma. Last week, I had the great privilege to interview Abi Daré, the author of the bestselling book, “The Girl with the Louding Voice.”. The novel tells the story of Adunni, a year-old girl in Nigeria who just wants to be heard — but a life of servitude, abuse, early marriage Estimated Reading Time: 7 mins.
Abi Daré discusses the inspiration and themes in her debut novel THE GIRL WITH THE LOUDING VOICE, currently available from Dutton in hardcover and forthcomin. Abi Daré's debut novel, "The Girl With the Louding Voice," is told in a prose style that will sound unfamiliar to many readers, particularly Western ones. But the effect is as vivid as the. Abi Daré has written an unforgettable novel, by the strength of her own louding voice." - Jeanine Cummins, author of American Dirt "A bold new storyteller Abi Daré's fearless debut is a celebration of girls who dare to dream and those who help unfurl their wings so that they might soar.".
Adunni is a year-old girl who lives in a small town several hours’ drive from Lagos. Although she is a minor, she is about to be illegally married off to raise money for her father. Her bride. 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. “Abi Daré’s debut novel The Girl with the Louding Voice is a beautifully rendered, achingly real portrait of Adunni, a young woman finding her strength and shaping her destiny in modern-day Nigeria. Adunni’s voice weaves and dances its way across the pages with a rhythm that captivated me, astonished me, and, more than once, broke my heart.
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