Purple Hibiscus
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie • 2003
Devastation Rating
Nigeria family abuse religion
Our Take
Kambili's father is a hero of Nigerian civil society and a tyrant within his own walls. Adichie writes the double life of the abused child — the pride and the terror coexisting in the same body. The purple hibiscus of the title is the only thing that grows outside the father's control.
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