Buried Beneath the Baobab Tree by Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani

Buried Beneath the Baobab Tree

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Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani, Viviana Mazza

HarperCollins · Ebook · September 4, 2018

Based on interviews with young women who were kidnapped by Boko Haram, this poignant novel by Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani tells the timely story of one girl who was taken from her home in Nigeria and her harrowing fight for survival.

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Who it’s for
A restrained, thoughtful read with enough emotional weight to hold your attention.
Genres
Historical YA - Africa, War & Military, Africa for Teens
Published
HarperCollins, September 4, 2018

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About this book

Based on interviews with young women who were kidnapped by Boko Haram, this poignant novel by Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani tells the timely story of one girl who was taken from her home in Nigeria and her harrowing fight for survival. Includes an afterword by award-winning journalist Viviana Mazza. A new pair of shoes, a university degree, a husband—these are the things that a girl dreams of in a Nigerian village.

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And with a government scholarship right around the corner, everyone can see that these dreams aren’t too far out of reach. But the girl’s dreams turn to nightmares when her village is attacked by Boko Haram, a terrorist group, in the middle of the night. Kidnapped, she is taken with other girls and women into the forest where she is forced to follow her captors’ radical beliefs and watch as her best friend slowly accepts everything she’s been told. Still, the girl defends her existence. As impossible as escape may seem, her life—her future—is hers to fight for.

Quiet Gravity

A restrained, thoughtful read with enough emotional weight to hold your attention.

Come here for

  • serious YA lens
  • faith, prejudice, and growing up under pressure

Expect

  • a sustained narrative voice
  • prestige-leaning teen fiction

Where it sits

Africa for Teens49%
War & Military42%
Historical YA - Africa34%

Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.

Publisher categories

  • Coming of Age
  • YA Family Stories
  • Historical YA - Africa
  • US Historical YA
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  • Africa for Teens
  • US Stories for Teens
  • African American YA
  • School Stories for Teens
Authors
Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani, Viviana Mazza
Publisher
HarperCollins
Published
September 4, 2018
Format
Ebook
Reading lane
Coming of Age