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Girl /

"I was a girl once, but not any more." So begins Girl, Edna O'Brien's harrowing portrayal of the young women abducted by Boko Haram. Set in the deep countryside of northeast Nigeria, this is a brutal story of incarceration, horror, and hunger; a hair-raising escape into the manif...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	O'Brien, Edna (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019.
Edition:	First American edition.
Subjects:	Boko Haram > Fiction. Kidnapping victims > Nigeria > Fiction. Schoolgirls > Crimes against > Nigeria > Fiction. Survival > Fiction. FICTION / Literary. Novels.

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