Born in a House of Glass

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Pub Date Aug 13 2024 | Archive Date May 05 2024

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As Udonwa grows, her hidden family history changes her forever.

Let me tell you a story. It’s about a war. This war is not the type fought with guns and machetes. It is a family type. A silent war. The type fought in the heart. It began long before I was formed.

Udonwa’s family is at war — a war of relationships, played out under the tyranny of a monster dad. Age twelve, Udonwa has a peculiar love for her father, Reverend Leonard Ilechukwu, who favours her but beats his wife and his other children. She sees his good side: after all, he pays the school fees, and tells her that she, named “the peaceful child,” is the one most likely to become a doctor.

When her newly married eldest sister suddenly takes her from their family compound in Iruama, Nigeria, to live with her in Awka, Udonwa experiences violence first-hand. Later, pieces of a sinister picture emerge that shake her life to the core.

No longer the person she thought she was, Udonwa launches into a period of extreme change, and parts of her life spiral into chaos as she finds herself torn between her love for her father and an underlying need to free herself. This vivid family saga is engrossing, deeply unsettling, and finally uplifting.
As Udonwa grows, her hidden family history changes her forever.

Let me tell you a story. It’s about a war. This war is not the type fought with guns and machetes. It is a family type. A silent war...

Advance Praise

"A story of survival and sexual awakenings; and also a gentle love story. A complicated read, much like reality." —SUNDAY TIMES (South Africa)

“I found myself gripped by the first scene, wondering how I already felt so deeply intertwined in the family's world. There are moments throughout this story where I had to take pause, compose myself, then keep reading through my rage or anger or disappointment. But although parts of this story will feel painful, other parts will feel beautiful, and all of it will feel meaningful. I can't get over this book...” —KERN CARTER, author of Boys and Girls Screaming

"A story of survival and sexual awakenings; and also a gentle love story. A complicated read, much like reality." —SUNDAY TIMES (South Africa)

“I found myself gripped by the first scene, wondering how...


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ISBN 9781459754249
PRICE $19.99 (USD)
PAGES 376

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