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Onomé, Louisa

Twice as Perfect

416 pp. | Feiwel | July, 2022 | Trade ISBN 978-1-25082-350-2 $18.99 | Ebook ISBN 978-1-250-82351-9
(2) YA While busy, high-achieving seventeen-year-old Nigerian Canadian high-school senior Adanna Nkwachi helps to plan her cousin's traditional wedding to a Nigerian superstar, she is also dealing with her own feelings for two totally different boys. Additionally, her older brother, Sam, has left home following a fight with their parents, and Ada now feels the weight of their expectations resting solely on her. She begins to question whether law school--their plan for her--is really what she wants. When she and Sam eventually reconnect, Ada's discovery of his choice to be a poet, against their parents' wishes, inspires her to contemplate other paths for herself. Deftly drawn, charismatic characters bring a measure of humor to the story and reverently ­convey aspects of Nigerian culture. Themes of cultural appropriation, parental expectations, familial relationships, first love, and finding one's own voice are seamlessly interwoven in a fluid plot that is honest and satisfying.
Reviewer: Pauletta Brown Bracy | Horn Book Magazine Issue: July, 2022

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