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2012., Adult, Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill Call No: YOUNG ADULT FIC ADI Edition: First Algonquin paperback edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In the city of Egunu, Nigeria, fifteen year-old Kambili and her older brother Jaja lead a somewhat cloistered life. Their father is a wealthy businessman, they live in a beautiful home, and attend private school. But, through Kambili's eyes, we see that their home life is anything but harmonious. Her father, a fanatically religious man has impossible expectations of his children and his wife, and if things don't go his way he becomes physically abusive. Not until Kambili and Jaja are sent away from home for the very first time to visit their loving aunt, does Kambili's world begin to blossom. But when a military coup threatens to destroy the country, the tension in her family's home escalates, and Kambili must find the strength to keep her loved ones together.
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c2011., Other Press Call No: Historical fiction FIC WATSON Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Twelve-year-old Blessing, seeing her family falling apart after her mother decides to leave her cheating father and move in with her family in a town without running water or electricity, finds comfort in the care of her grandmother who teaches her the ways of the midwife in rural Nigeria, but is faced with the realities of the world when she is exposed to genital mutilation and the environmental damage caused by British and American oil companies.
