num_pages: 240
description: A New York Public Library Best Book for Adults (2019)I was a girl once but not anymore. So begins Girl Edna O'Brien's harrowing portrayal of the young women abducted by Boko Haram. Set in the deep countryside of northeast Nigeria this is a brutal story of incarceration horror and hunger; a hair-raising escape into the manifold terrors of the forest; and a descent into the labyrinthine bureaucracy and hostility awaiting a victim who returns home with a child blighted by enemy blood.
language: English
title: Girl
publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux