Fadimatu
- Publisher
- Goose Lane Editions
- Initial publish date
- Jan 1992
- Category
- Literary
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780864921215
- Publish Date
- Jan 1992
- List Price
- $14.95
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Description
Fadimatu, Jennifer Mitton's powerful new novel, shows a young Nigerian woman's struggle to find her place somewhere between the irreconcilable extremes of Westernized lifestyle and tribal culture. Proud, intelligent, independent, and cantankerous, Fadimatu is pulled by her own desires toward both extremes. She loves and despises the teachers at her mission school and is respected and detested by them in return. She works halfheartedly for her father, attracted to and repelled by the man her father decides she will marry. Later, when she herself becomes a teacher, Fadimatu yearns to escape her husband's tyranny even as she upholds his authority.
About the author
A teacher by profession, Mitton studied in France and taught in Nigeria as well as in Vancouver, where she now lives. A woman of many talents, she is a former editor of Prism International; she wrote and illustrated Bonjour Minuit, a young adult novel; an she reviews regularly for The Toronto Star and The Vancouver Sun.