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Purple Hibiscus

by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  • FINISHED
  • Finished October 2025
  • First published 2003

africa nigeria novel family

Fifteen-year-old Kambili lives in Nigeria with a wealthy and strictly religious father who is violent at home.   A stay with her aunt shows her a different way of living.