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Second-Class Citizen

`Buchi Emecheta was the foremother of black British women`s writing . . . powerful fictions written from and about our lives` Bernardine Evaristo `Most dreams, as all dreamers know quite well, do have setbacks. Adah`s dream was no exception, for hers had many`They nicknamed Adah `the Igbo tigress` at school in Nigeria, she was so fearless. Now she has moved to London to join her husband, and is determined to succeed. But her welcome from 1960`s England – and the man she married – is a cold one. Providing for her growing family, struggling to survive and negotiating everyday injustices along the way, Adah still resolves that she will never give up her dream of becoming a writer.`Bold, brave, defiant … its exploration of blackness, the white gaze, and the development of the main character Adah`s sense of self is extremely powerful` Gal-dem

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