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The teller of secrets : a novel

Title
The teller of secrets : a novel / Bisi Adjapon.
Author
Adjapon, Bisi
Publication
  • New York, NY : HarperVia, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2021.
  • ©2021

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Description
341 pages; 24 cm
Summary
  • "In this stunning debut novel, Esi, a feisty Nigerian-Ghanaian girl growing up amid political upheaval in postcolonial Ghana, begins to question the hypocrisy of the patriarchal society that surrounds her, and the restrictions and unrealistic expectations placed on women"--
  • Late 1960s, Ghana. Young Esi Agyekum is as tight-lipped about her father's adultery as she is about her half-sisters' sex lives. After she is humiliated and punished for her own sexual exploration, Esi begins to question why women's secrets and men's secrets bear different consequences. As she navigates her burgeoning womanhood, Esi tries to reconcile her own ideals and dreams with her family's complicated past and troubled present, and fights to carve out her own identity against their society's double standards. -- adapted from jacket
Uniform Title
Of women and frogs
Alternative Title
Of women and frogs
Subject
  • Teenage girls, Black > Ghana > Fiction
  • Women > Ghana > Social conditions > Fiction
  • Self-actualization (Psychology) in adolescence > Fiction
  • Girls
  • Manners and customs
  • Self-actualization (Psychology) in adolescence
  • Africa > Politics and government > 1960- > Fiction
  • Africa > Social conditions > 1960- > Fiction
  • Ghana > Social life and customs > Fiction
  • Ghana
Genre/Form
  • Fiction.
  • Novels.
Note
  • "Originally published as Of women and frogs by Kachifo Limited under the Farafina imprint in 2018"--Title page verso.
Call Number
Sc E 22-246
ISBN
  • 9780063088948
  • 0063088940
  • 9780063088993
  • 0063088991
LCCN
2021016323
OCLC
1237861495
Author
Adjapon, Bisi, author.
Title
The teller of secrets : a novel / Bisi Adjapon.
Publisher
New York, NY : HarperVia, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2021.
Copyright Date
©2021
Edition
First HarperVia edition.
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Local Note
Schomburg copy with dust jacket.
Local Subject
Black author.
Research Call Number
Sc E 22-246
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