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Purple hibiscus / a novel by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.

Summary:

In the city of Egunu, Nigeria, fifteen year-old Kambili and her older brother Jaja lead a somewhat cloistered life. Their father is a wealthy businessman, they live in a beautiful home, and attend private school. But, through Kambili's eyes, we see that their home life is anything but harmonious. Her father, a fanatically religious man has impossible expectations of his children and his wife, and if things don't go his way he becomes physically abusive. Not until Kambili and Jaja are sent away from home for the very first time to visit their loving aunt, does Kambili's world begin to blossom. But when a military coup threatens to destroy the country, the tension in her family's home escalates, and Kambili must find the strength to keep her loved ones together.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781616202415
  • ISBN: 1616202416
  • Physical Description: 307 pages ; 21 cm
  • Publisher: Chapel Hill : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, [2021]

Content descriptions

Target Audience Note:
920L Lexile
Study Program Information Note:
Accelerated Reader AR UG 5.8 13 75661.
Subject:
Teenage girls > Fiction.
Children of the rich > Fiction.
Siblings > Fiction.
Fathers and daughters > Fiction.
Religious fanaticism > Fiction.
Coups d'état > Fiction.
Aunts > Fiction.
Siblings.
Nigeria > Fiction.
Genre:
Domestic fiction.
Coming-of-age fiction
Romance fiction.

Available copies

  • 5 of 6 copies available at NC Cardinal. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Onslow County Public Library.

Holds

  • 0 current holds with 6 total copies.
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Jacksonville Main Library FIC ADICHIE (Text) 36015000140042 Adult Fiction Available -

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