Kambili and Jaja communicate through a secret language, an empathy of looks their Mama too chooses to speak few words for fear they might be the wrong ones. To be anything less than top of her class at school is unacceptable and she works hard to fulfil her father's wishes, accepting his disproportionate punishment when she inadvertently lapses into sin. Outwardly Papa is charming, generous and principled in running his factories and the only newspaper in Nigeria to stand up to government tyranny, but at home he imposes his own strict brand of Catholicism, allowing Kambili no space to think for herself in her days dominated by his schedules. But, from the outset, the reader has the unsettling feeling that something is amiss although materially well blessed, the lives of Kambili and her brother Jaja are dominated by their overzealous father. This is the story of Kambili, the fifteen-year-old daughter of a wealthy family who, thanks to her father's business enterprises, appears to have everything she could want.
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