Susan Hated Literature

Author: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
ISBN: 9780007189885 DDC: 823.92
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Things started to fall apart at home when my brother, Jaja, did not go to communion and Papa flung his heavy missal across the room and broke the figurines on the étagére.

Kambili, the teenage narrator of the book, is a 15 year old girl. In many ways she lives a priveliged life in Nigeria. Her father owns factories; he is a “big man” in the community. A fact that is brought home to her when she visits her less well off aunt and cousins. But wealth doesn’t equal happiness. Kamibili and her brother Jaja live under the strict rules of their father and his fiercely religious beliefs.

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I could blame the library move at work, but that’d be a lie too, I have access to this whole wide world that is the interwebs outside work hours after all. But the only alternative is to blame myself, and I can’t be doing that at all.

Oh I know, I’ll blame the fact that I must have been hacked at some stage and some *wonderful person* decided to insert a link to a certain site which got this site a nice little warning on Google. I think i’ve removed it. And I’ve upgraded WP so we should be clear now. Gotta wait for the details of the review that Google will hopefully conduct.

What have all you good people been up to?

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