Lucky girl : a novel
(Book)
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Published
New York : The Dial Press, [2023]., , ©2023.
Physical Desc
324 pages ; 21 cm
Status
Downtown Lansing - 1st Floor-Adult Fiction
FIC Muchemi
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FIC Muchemi
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Subjects
LC Subjects
African Americans -- Relations with Africans -- Fiction.
Africans -- United States -- Ethnic identity -- Fiction.
Bildungsromans.
New York (N.Y.) -- Social conditions -- 20th century -- Fiction.
Nineteen ninties -- Fiction.
Racism against Black people -- United States -- Fiction.
Students, Foreign -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction.
Women, Black -- Violence against -- Fiction.
Young women -- Kenya -- Nairobi -- Fiction.
Africans -- United States -- Ethnic identity -- Fiction.
Bildungsromans.
New York (N.Y.) -- Social conditions -- 20th century -- Fiction.
Nineteen ninties -- Fiction.
Racism against Black people -- United States -- Fiction.
Students, Foreign -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction.
Women, Black -- Violence against -- Fiction.
Young women -- Kenya -- Nairobi -- Fiction.
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Published
New York : The Dial Press, [2023]., , ©2023.
Format
Book
Language
English
Notes
Description
"Soila is a lucky girl by anyone’s estimation. Raised by her stern, conservative mother and a chorus of aunts, she has lived a protected life in Nairobi. Soila is headstrong and outspoken, and she chafes against her mother’s strict rules. After a harrowing assault by a trusted family friend, she flees to New York for college, vowing never to return home. New York in the 1990s is not what Soila imagined it would be. Instead of finding a golden land of opportunity, Soila is shocked by the entitlement of her wealthy American classmates and the poverty she sees in the streets. She befriends a Black American girl at school and witnesses the insidious racism her friend endures, forcing Soila to begin to acknowledge the legacy of slavery and the blind spots afforded by her Kenyan upbringing. When she falls in love with a free-spirited artist, a man her mother would never approve of, she must decide whether to honor her Kenyan identity and what she owes to her family, or to follow her heart and forge a life of her own design." --publisher's website
Citations
APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Muchemi-Ndiritu, I. (2023). Lucky girl: a novel . The Dial Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Muchemi-Ndiritu, Irene. 2023. Lucky Girl: A Novel. The Dial Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Muchemi-Ndiritu, Irene. Lucky Girl: A Novel The Dial Press, 2023.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Muchemi-Ndiritu, Irene. Lucky Girl: A Novel The Dial Press, 2023.
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