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Join the Uptown Harlem Book Club Meetup for their discussion of “Purple Hibiscus“. It’s a first person narrator Kambili Achike is a 15 year old Nigeria girl growing up in sheltered privilege in a country ravaged by political strife and personal struggle. She and her brother, Jaja, and their quiet mother, who speaks “the way a bird eats, in small amounts,” live this life of luxury because Kambili’s father is a wealthy man who owns factories, publishes a politically outspoken newspaper and outwardly leads the moral, humble life of a faithful Catholic. Continue reading →