Buried beneath the Baobab Tree
Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani, afterword by Viviana Mazza
When Boko Haram attacks her Nigerian village, an unnamed narrator is kidnapped with the other girls and women, forced to convert to Islam, and to marry.
Book details
- Format
- Hardcover
- ISBN-13
- 9780062696724
- Language
- English
Reading lists that include this book
- 2019Fourteen and OlderMature content
- 2019CONTEMPORARY CONCERNS
Sources
- The Best Children's Books of the Year [2019 edition]Source for: Description
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