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2000s: Soon you will become the thing all other beasts fear.
Dazzling
What you need to know before your trail
Treasure and her mother lost everything when Treasure’s daddy died. Haggling for scraps in the market, Treasure meets a spirit who promises to bring her father back – but she has to do something for him first.
Ozoemena has an itch in the middle of her back that can’t be scratched. An itch that speaks to her patrilineal destiny, to defend her people by becoming a leopard. Her father impressed upon her what an honour this was before he vanished, but it’s one she couldn’t want less.
But as the two girls reckon with their burgeoning wildness and the legacy of their fathers’ decisions, Ozoemena’s fellow students at her new boarding school start to vanish. Treasure and Ozoemena will face terrible choices as each must ask herself: in a world that always says ‘no’ to women, what must two young girls sacrifice to get what is theirs?
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Nigeria
The culture and language of this country is beautifully evoked in the book. Be sure to look up the words in the Igbo language as these describe clothes and food and you really get a richness of the story that you might otherwise miss.
You also get to see inside Nigerian society – with its mores, conventions and belief systems. War might linger in the background but there is magic and folklore around you if you look hard enough.
BookTrail Boarding Pass: Dazzling
Destination: Nigeria Author/guide: Chikodili Emelumadu Departure Time: 2000s
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