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"Things started to fall apart at home when my brother, Jaja, did not go to communion."
Purple HibiscusWe did that often, asking each other questions whose answers we alread — Purple Hibiscus
"We did that often, asking each other questions whose answers we already knew. Perhaps it was so that we would not ask the other questions, the ones whose answers we did not want to know."
Purple Hibiscus
Purple Hibiscus
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Purple Hibiscus is the 2003 debut novel by the Nigerian writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. It follows Kambili Achike, a 15-year-old Nigerian teenage girl who struggles in the shadow of her father, Eugene. Eugene is a successful businessman, a beloved philanthropist, and a devout Catholic, who nevertheless violently abuses his family. A post-colonial novel, it received positive reviews upon publicati
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"Morality, as well as the sense of taste, is relative.’"
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