The teller of secrets : a novel /
Adjapon, Bisi,
The teller of secrets : a novel / Bisi Adjapon. - First edition. - 341 pages ; 24 cm
"Originally published as Of women and frogs by Kachifo Limited under the Farafina imprint in 2018"--Title page verso.
"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
9780063088948 0063088940 9780063088993 0063088991
2021016323
GBC1G4860 bnb
020348493 Uk
Girls--Fiction.
Self-actualization (Psychology) in adolescence--Fiction.
Ghana--Social life and customs--Fiction.
Novels.
The teller of secrets : a novel / Bisi Adjapon. - First edition. - 341 pages ; 24 cm
"Originally published as Of women and frogs by Kachifo Limited under the Farafina imprint in 2018"--Title page verso.
"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
9780063088948 0063088940 9780063088993 0063088991
2021016323
GBC1G4860 bnb
020348493 Uk
Girls--Fiction.
Self-actualization (Psychology) in adolescence--Fiction.
Ghana--Social life and customs--Fiction.
Novels.