Fiction by Abi Dare.
Adunni is a fourteen-year-old girl in a small Nigerian village who wants to go to school more than anything. However, since her mother died and her father descended into a depression, there has been no money for school fees, or even for rent and food, for Adunni or her two brothers. Then her father insists she become the third wife of an old man who has promised to help the family financially in exchange for her hand. But Adunni's problems don't even end there!
My sister-in-law recommended this book to me. She said the unusual dialect made the book difficult to read at first, but I found that listening to the story on audible circumvented this problem nicely; the narrator navigated the dialect perfectly.
This was a very good story!!
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