Book Talk – The Girl With the Louding Voice by Abi Daré
Led by Liz Morley and Marcy Manas
16:00 Tuesday 28 May
Program on premises only
Our Book Talk group meets once a month.
Books are available to borrow from the Gura Family Memorial Library.
A list of questions is provided in advance to facilitate discussion.
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.
Please call the box office 09-8330950 to purchase tickets.
Members: NIS 20
Non-members: NIS 40
