Girl
O'Brien, Edna
Girl / Edna O'Brien. - First American edition. - New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux , c2019 - 230 pages ; 22 cm
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 returns home with a child blighted by enemy blood.
9780374162559
Boko Haram---Fiction
Kidnapping victims----Fiction
Schoolgirls---Fiction
Survival---Fiction
Nigeria---Fiction
PR6065.B7 / G56 2019
FIC OBR
Girl / Edna O'Brien. - First American edition. - New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux , c2019 - 230 pages ; 22 cm
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 returns home with a child blighted by enemy blood.
9780374162559
Boko Haram---Fiction
Kidnapping victims----Fiction
Schoolgirls---Fiction
Survival---Fiction
Nigeria---Fiction
PR6065.B7 / G56 2019
FIC OBR
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