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Twice as Perfect by Louisa Onom

A YA novel about being caught between two worlds.

A YA novel about being caught between two worlds

A book cover featuring a teenage girl with long straight hair staring straight ahead defiantly.

For seventeen-year-old Adanna Nkwachi, life is all about duty: to school and the debate team, to her Nigerian parents, and even to her cousin Genny as Ada helps prepare Genny's wedding to Afrobeats superstar Skeleboy. Because ever since her older brother, Sam, had a fight with their parents a few years ago and disappeared,somebodyhas to fill the void he left behind. Ada may never know what caused Sam to leave home, but the one thing she's certain of is that it's on her to make sure her parents' sacrifices aren't in vain.

One day, chance brings the siblings back together and they start working to repair their bond. Although she fears how their parents will react if they find out, Ada is determined to get answers about the night Sam leftSam, who was supposed to be an engineer but is now, what, a poet? The more she learns about Sam's poetry, the more Ada begins to wonder if maybe being happy is just as important as doing what's expected of her. Amid parental pressure, anxiety over the debate competition, a complicated love life and the Nigerian wedding-to-end-all-weddings, can Ada learn, just this once, to put herself first? (From HarperCollins Canada)

Louisa Onomis a Nigerian Canadian author who lives in Toronto. She is also the author of the YA novels Like Home andThe Melancholy of Summer.

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