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The Gardener's Daughter
Paperback
ISBN13: 9789789792962
Publisher: Leverage Publishers
Published: Dec 21 2021
Pages: 140
Weight: 0.43
Height: 0.30 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
A deeply moving Nigerian novel about misjudged innocence, cultural blindness, and the quiet fight to reclaim the lost.
In a remote Nigerian town where silence is survival and superstition shapes fate, young Bibilore is born different. Gentle. Perceptive. Deeply intuitive. Instead of being cherished for her empathy, she is feared. Misunderstood. Labeled.
Her family and neighbours call her a witch.
Behind closed doors, Bibilore suffers-emotionally neglected, psychologically bruised, and slowly erased by those who should have protected her.
Then, a devastating fire changes everything.
When Dr. Kufre, a pediatrician with a buried past, meets Bibilore in the aftermath, something stirs. This isn't just another case. Kufre recognizes the signs because once, she too was a girl crushed under the weight of ignorance and fear.
As their lives intertwine, The Gardener's Daughter unearths the deep roots of cultural cruelty that target the most fragile among us-children with emotional depth, elderly women with fading strength-and calls out the names we use to excuse our neglect.
A powerful tale of reckoning, redemption, and the healing that begins when one person chooses to truly see another.
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