num_pages: 371
description:  All you have are your words.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 valuable 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 in 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 fourteen-year-old 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.
language: English
title: The Girl with the Louding Voice
publisher: Dutton Books