EAN: 9780593133903

LUCKY GIRL - IRENE MUCHEMI-NDIRITU KARTONIERT (TB)

Longing for independence  a young sheltered Kenyan woman flees the expectations of her mother
for a life in New York City that challenges all her beliefs about race  love  and
family.Readers will find a poignant  memorable voice they’ll feel lucky to have met.”—Harper’s
Bazaar (Best Summer Beach Reads of 2023) Soila is a lucky girl by anyone’s estimation. Raised
by her stern  conservative mother and a chorus of aunts  she has lived a protected life in
Nairobi. Soila is headstrong and outspoken  and she chafes against her mother’s strict rules.
After a harrowing assault by a trusted family friend  she flees to New York for college  vowing
never to return home. New York in the 1990s is not what Soila imagined it would be. Instead of
finding a golden land of opportunity  Soila is shocked by the entitlement of her wealthy
American classmates and the poverty she sees in the streets. She befriends a Black American
girl at school and witnesses the insidious racism her friend endures  forcing Soila to begin to
acknowledge the legacy of slavery and the blind spots afforded by her Kenyan upbringing. When
she falls in love with a free-spirited artist  a man her mother would never approve of  she
must decide whether to honor her Kenyan identity and what she owes to her family  or to follow
her heart and forge a life of her own design. Lucky Girl is a fierce and tender debut about the
lives and loves we choose—what it meant to be an African immigrant in America at the turn of
the millennium  and how a young woman finds a place for herself in the world.

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