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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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An Ordinary Wonder

An Ordinary Wonder

Papillon, Buki

Hardcover

General GLBTQIA FictionLiterary Fiction

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ISBN10: 1643137816
ISBN13: 9781643137810
Publisher: Pegasus Books
Published: Sep 7 2021
Pages: 336
Weight: 1.04
Height: 1.10 Width: 5.90 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
**WINNER OF THE MAYA ANGELOU AWARD**

A Massachusetts Book Award Fiction Honor

An extraordinary literary debut about a Nigerian boy's secret intersex identity and his desire to live as a girl.

Oto leaves for boarding school with one plan: excel and escape his cruel home. Falling in love with his roommate was certainly not on the agenda, but fear and shame force him to hide his love and true self.

Back home, weighed down by the expectations of their wealthy and powerful family, the love of Oto's twin sister wavers and, as their world begins to crumble around them, Oto must make drastic choices that will alter the family's lives for ever.

Richly imagined with art, proverbs and folk tales, this moving and modern novel follows Oto through life at home and at boarding school in Nigeria, through the heartbreak of living as a boy despite their profound belief they are a girl, and through a hunger for freedom that only a new life in the United States can offer.

An Ordinary Wonder is a powerful coming-of-age story that explores complex desires as well as challenges of family, identity, gender, and culture, and what it means to feel whole.

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