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Boko Haram Fiction FICTION / Literary Kidnapping victims Nigeria Fiction Schoolgirls Crimes against Nigeria Fiction Survival Fiction Terrorism Nigeria Fiction Young adult fiction YOUNG ADULT FICTION / People & Places / Africa YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Social Themes / Prejudice & Racism YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Social Themes / ViolenceNwaubani, Adaobi Tricia
Summary: Based on interviews with young women kidnapped by Boko Haram, this novel is the story of a girl taken from her home in Nigeria and her harrowing fight for survival in the forest where she is forced to follow her captors' radical beliefs and watch her best friend succumb to them.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2018
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Summary: "I was a girl once, but not any more." So begins Girl, Edna O'Brien's harrowing portrayal of the young women abducted by Boko Haram. Set in the deep countryside of northeast Nigeria, this is a brutal story of incarceration, horror, and hunger; a hair-raising escape into the manifold terrors of the forest; and a descent into the labyrinthine bureaucracy and hostility awaiting a victim who...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2019