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1) Freshwater
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Ada begins her life in the south of Nigeria as a troubled baby and a source of deep concern to her family. Her parents, Saul and Saachi, successfully prayed her into existence, but as she grows into a volatile and splintered child, it becomes clear that something went terribly awry. When Ada comes of age and moves to America for college, the group of selves within her grows in power and agency. A traumatic assault leads to a crystallization of her...
3) Little Women
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"After her first literary success with Hospital Sketches, a book based on her experiences in the Civil War, and her secret career as the author of 'rubbishy novels' to contribute to the family income, Louisa May Alcott was asked by her publisher to write a 'girl's book.' Alcott grudgingly complied with this semiautobiographical novel of four very different sisters and their beloved Marmee struggling to keep a home with their father away at war--and...
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