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Book Review: Growing Where you are Planted

13th October 2009 by Deborah No Comments

Purple Hibiscus is a  beautifully written coming of age story of a 15 year-old girl  Kambili and her experience growing up in a repressive Catholic household in Nigeria. The story focuses on how Kambili and her brother find their voices despite the abuse of their father (who clearly struggles with his own internalized racism and [...]

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Book Review: From Jamaica to the US to Ghana

8th September 2009 by Deborah No Comments

The Book of Night Women by Marlon James This was a book that I did not want to read but could not put down.  The book was vivid, violent, infuriating and painful.  I sympathized with characters I did not want to like and despised the characters that I should have cared about.  James doesn’t allow [...]

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