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Purple Hibiscus is the first novel by the Nigerian writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. It portrays 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.
Grisham describes Kambili as "a 15 year-old African girl who lives with her mother, brother, and father, Eugene." And would later assert that "her father plays a dominant role in her life, plans her schedule down to every last minute, and demands absolute adherence to his extreme rules of Catholicism."
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (/ ˌ tʃ ɪ m ə ˈ m ɑː n d ə ə ŋ ˈ ɡ oʊ z i ə ˈ d iː tʃ i. eɪ / ⓘ [a]; born 15 September 1977) is a Nigerian author and activist. Regarded as a central figure in postcolonial feminist literature, she is the author of the novels Purple Hibiscus (2003), Half of a Yellow Sun (2006) and Americanah (2013).
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The Intertextual Imagination in Purple Hibiscus; Dethroning The Infallible Father: Religion, Patriarchy and Politics In Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus; Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Purple Hibiscus and the Paradoxes of Postcolonial Redemption; Beyond the odds of the red hibiscus: a critical reading of Chimamanda Adichie's Purple Hibiscus
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Black Boy (1945) is a memoir by American author Richard Wright, detailing his upbringing.Wright describes his youth in the South: Mississippi, Arkansas and Tennessee, and his eventual move to Chicago, where he establishes his writing career and becomes involved with the Communist Party.