TY  - BOOK
AU  - Adjapon,Bisi
TI  - The teller of secrets: a novel 
SN  - 9780063088948
PY  - 2021///
CY  - New York, NY
PB  - HarperVia, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
KW  - Girls
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Self-actualization (Psychology) in adolescence
KW  - Ghana
KW  - Social life and customs
KW  - Novels
KW  - lcgft
N1  - "Originally published as Of women and frogs by Kachifo Limited under the Farafina imprint in 2018"--Title page verso
N2  - "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
ER  -