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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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Details
- 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
- Subjects
- Ghana
- Black author
- Novels
- Fiction
- Manners and customs
- Girls
- Ghana > Social life and customs > Fiction
- Africa > Social conditions > 1960- > Fiction
- Africa > Politics and government > 1960- > Fiction
- Self-actualization (Psychology) in adolescence > Fiction
- Women > Ghana > Social conditions > Fiction
- Teenage girls, Black > Ghana > Fiction
- 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