And So I Roar
A Novel
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- ¥1,700
発行者による作品情報
A stunning, inspiring new novel from Abi Daré, New York Times bestselling author of The Girl with the Louding Voice
When Tia accidentally overhears a whispered conversation between her mother—terminally ill and lying in a hospital bed in Port Harcourt, Nigeria—and her aunt, the repercussions will send her on a desperate quest to uncover a secret her mother has been hiding for nearly two decades.
Back home in Lagos a few days later, Adunni, a plucky fourteen-year-old runaway, is lying awake in Tia’s guest room. Having escaped from her rural village in a desperate bid to seek a better future, she’s finally found refuge with Tia, who has helped her enroll in school. It’s always been Adunni’s dream to get an education, and she’s bursting with excitement.
Suddenly, there’s a horrible knocking at the front gate. . . .
It’s only the beginning of a harrowing ordeal that will see Tia forced to make a terrible choice between protecting Adunni or finally learning the truth behind the secret her mother has hidden from her. And Adunni will learn that her “louding voice,” as she calls it, is more important than ever, as she must advocate to save not only herself but all the young women of her home village, Ikati.
If she succeeds, she may transform Ikati into a place where girls are allowed to claim the bright futures they deserve—and shout their stories to the world.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Daré's harrowing sequel to The Girl with the Louding Voice chronicles 14-year-old Adunni's flight from the indentured servitude she'd fallen into after fleeing her husband. Having escaped her abusive employer Big Madame, Adunni now lives with Big Madame's neighbor Tia in Lagos, Nigeria. Adunni's plans to start school are interrupted when she's forced to return to the village of her birth to atone for the death of her husband's second wife. Tia, a young professional with painful secrets of her own, accompanies Adunni back to her village, and in alternating narration, the two recount the hours leading up to what could be a mortal reckoning for Adunni and several other girls, who have been accused of causing a drought. While Tia desperately tries to phone for help, Adunni and the others are paraded through the village, then left in the forest, with fatal consequences. The juxtaposition of Tia's urbane voice and Adunni's heavy dialect lends itself to Daré's unforgettable contrast of urban, modern Nigeria with its rural, tribal counterpart. Moreover, Adunni's natural lyricism is as powerful as her resilience. It adds up to an indelible portrait of a turbulent girlhood.
