The Girl with the Louding Voice

This book is written from the girl's point of view and written how she speaks, so it is very hard to get through and understand her broken English. Then there is rape and more rape. I skipped some chapters all together - skipping and skimming to get the gist. If you are curious how woman are created in Nigeria this is a good book. I already knew and this just hurt my heart more. Amazon writes, "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" All in all, I say: SKIP IT