Dear FictionAddicts,
Welcome to F-E-B-R-U-A-R-Y. It took forever to
get here, like it was travelling from some very far off planet! Well what do
you expect of the month of love? ☺. Ain’t no hurrying love... May true love find us, all.
I hope you enjoyed the last
book of the month and as you know it’s time to unveil the books of the month. I
had in the past promised that we will read more Nigerian authors from time to
time and in keeping that promise, this month we are adding a new author, Abi Dare
and a genre new to this blog- African Literature.
This month’s books of the month
are The Girl WithThe Louding Voice by Abi Dare and The Flight
Attendant by Chris Bohjalian
The Girl With The Louding Voice by Abi Dare
Adunni is a fourteen-year-old
Nigerian girl who knows what she wants: an education. This, her mother has told
her, is the only way to get a a “louding voice”- the ability to speak for herself
and decide her own future. But instead, Adunni’s father sells her to be the
third wife of a local man who is eager for her to bear him a son and heir.
When Adunni runs to the
city, hoping to make a better life, she finds that the only other option before
her is servitude to a wealthy family. As a yielding daughter, a subservient
wife and a powerless slave, Adunni is told, by words and deeds, that she is
nothing.
But while misfortune might
muffle her voice for a time, they cannot mute it. And when she realizes that
she must stand up not only for herself, but other girls, for the owns who came
before her and were lost, and for the next girls, who will inevitably follow:
she finds the resolve to speak, however she can – in a whisper, in song in
broken English -until she is heard.
The Girl With The Louding Voice is Abi Dare’s debut novel and it has been named Most Anticipated Book of 2020 by The New York Times, Marie
Claire, Vogue, Essence, PopSugar, Daily Mail, Electric Literature, Red Magazine,
Stylist, Daily Kos, Library Journal, The Every Girl and Read It Forward!
The Girl With The Louding
Voice also won the Bath Novel Award for unpublished manuscripts in 2018.
You can download a copy of The Girl With The Louding Voice, here
The Flight Attendant by Chris Bohjalian
Casandra Bowden is no stranger
to hungover mornings. She’s a binge drinker, her job with the airline making it
easy to find adventure and the occasional blackouts seem to be inevitable. She
lives with them, and the accompanying self-loathing. When she wakes us in a
Dubai hotel room, she tries to piece the previous night back together, already
counting the minutes until she has to catch her crew shuttle to the airport.
She quietly slides out of bed, careful not to aggravate her already pounding head,
and looks at the man she spent the night with. She sees his dark hair. His
utter stillness. And blood, a slick, still wet pool on the crisp white sheets.
Afraid to call the police- she’s a single woman alone in a hotel room far from
home – Cassie begins to lie. She lies as she joins the other flight attendants
and pilots in the van. She lies on the way to Paris as she works the first-class
cabin. She lies to the FBI agents in New York who meet her at the gate. Soon it
is too late to come clean- or face the truth about what really happened back in
Dubai. Could she have killed him? If not, who did?
Popular quotes from The
Flight Attendant
·
“Remember that person you
wanted to be? There’s still time.”
·
“A smart girl is nobody’s
pushover and nobody’s foe. A smart girl is both sword and smile.”
·
“Supposedly, whatever we do
that’s selfish goes with us to the grave: whatever we do that’s selfless lives
on.”
You can download a copy of The Flight Attendant, here
That’s
its people. Grab whatever drink works for you while reading and get to it.
Much Love,
FictionAddict.
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