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被《纽约时报》、Marie Claire, Vogue, Essence, PopSugar, Daily Mail, Electric Literature, Red Magazine, Stylist, Daily Kos, Library Journal, The Every Girl, and Read It Forward等杂志评为2020年最受期待的书！

一部动人的情感处女作小说，用一位尼日利亚少女令人难忘的声音讲述，她陷入奴役生活，但决心为自己的梦想而奋斗并选择自己的未来。

阿杜尼（Atunni）是一个十四岁的尼日利亚女孩，她知道自己想要什么：教育。她的母亲告诉她，这是获得“大声音（louding voice）”——即表达自己的意见和决定自己的未来的能力——的**方法。但是，相反，阿杜尼的父亲把她卖给了一个当地男人当他的第三任妻子，这个男人渴望她为他生一个儿子和继承人。

当阿杜尼（Atunni）逃到城市，希望过上更好的生活时，她发现**的选择就是为富裕的家庭做苦役。作为一个顺从的女儿，一个屈从的妻子和一个没有任何权力的奴隶，阿杜尼通过言行被告知，她什么都不是。

但是，尽管不幸可能会暂时削弱他的声音，但它们无法使其消失。当她意识到她不仅要捍卫自己的权利，还要捍卫其他女孩，捍卫在她之前逃出来却迷失自己的女孩以及接下必定会出逃的女孩们；她找到了说话的决心，她要以任何可能的方式发声——低声细语，唱歌，用蹩脚的英语——直到她被听见。

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Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2020 by The New York Times, Marie Claire, Vogue, Essence, PopSugar, Daily Mail, Electric Literature, Red Magazine, Stylist, Daily Kos, Library Journal, The Every Girl, and Read It Forward!

A powerful, emotional debut novel told in the unforgettable voice of a young Nigerian woman who is trapped in a life of servitude but determined to fight for her dreams and choose her own future.

Adunni is a fourteen-year-old Nigerian girl who knows what she wants: an education. This, her mother has told her, is the only way to get a “louding voice”—the ability to speak for herself and decide her own future. But instead, Adunni's father sells her to be the third wife of a local man who is eager for her to bear him a son and heir.

When Adunni runs away to the city, hoping to make a better life, she finds that the only other option before her is servitude to a wealthy family. As a yielding daughter, a subservient wife, and a powerless slave, Adunni is told, by words and deeds, that she is nothing.

But while misfortunes might muffle her voice for a time, they cannot mute it. And when she realizes that she must stand up not only for herself, but for other girls, for the ones who came before her and were lost, and for the next girls, who will inevitably follow; she finds the resolve to speak, however she can—in a whisper, in song, in broken English—until she is heard.