An Ordinary Wonder
An Ordinary Wonder is a story of the courage needed to be yourself.
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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A powerful novel about an intersex Nigerian teenager and the courage to be yourself.
Raised as a boy in a grand but unhappy family in Nigeria, Otolorin Akinro escapes to boarding school knowing two things: she is truly a girl, and to stay safe, she must hide that truth.
Away from the cruelty of her childhood home, Oto blooms even as she strives to be the best boy she can, finding true friendship and working hard to earn a scholarship to an American university, hoping someone out there might help her understand the secrets her body holds.
But she cannot stay away forever. Back home for the holidays, though Oto and her beloved twin sister are overjoyed to see each other, their mother's violence erupts once more and when a terrible incident rips their lives apart, Oto is left alone.
As her world goes up in flames, can Otolorin rebuild a life from the ashes of her true self?
An Ordinary Wonder is an utterly gripping, heartbreaking and uplifting coming-of-age story about family, identity, gender and culture and discovering your whole, true self. If you loved The Vanishing Half, The Girl with the Louding Voice or The Death of Vivek Oji, you'll adore this moving book.
USA: 🇺🇸 Publisher: Pegasus Books 2021 🇺🇸
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UK: 🇬🇧 Publisher: Dialogue Books (Little, Brown UK) 2021 🇬🇧
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BRIDGERTON STAR ADJOA ANDOH, WHO PLAYS "LADY DANBURY" IN THE HIT NETFLIX SERIES, (and Nenneke in The Witcher,) gives voice to Otolorin in the audiobook of An Ordinary Wonder by Buki Papillon. Adjoa's many film and TV roles include Doctor Who, and Adulthood. She directed and starred in Richard II, the first ever company of women of color in a Shakespeare play on a major UK stage. The Bookseller News.
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