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Aquarian Dawn
- Author
- Ebele Chizea
- Narrator
- Nene Nwoko
- Publisher
- Tantor Media, Inc
- Publish Date
- 30 September 2025
- Run Time
- 10 hours 33 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
- Genre
- Children’s / Teenage fiction: Magical realism, Children’s / Teenage fiction: General fiction, Children’s / Teenage fiction: General fiction, Children’s / Teenage general interest: Places and peoples, Children’s / Teenage fiction: Relationship stories – Romance, love or friendship, Children’s / Teenage fiction: Historical fiction, Children’s / Teenage fiction: Historical fiction
What to expect
Winner, Foreword INDIES Book of the Year: Young Adult Fiction!
In Ebele Chizea's stunning debut, teenager Ada and her mother flee the civil war of their West African home and come to America in 1966, where Ada soon discovers—and blossoms within—the US counterculture movement, developing a drive for anti-war activism which she takes with her back to Nabuka only to uncover new truths about herself as well as family secrets.
While protesting the Vietnam war, Ada forges friendships with other nonconformist youth: free-spirited Stacey, a boisterous hippie, and Sal, a philosophical wanderlust. Soon she seeks independence from her mother, love on her own terms, as well as sexual autonomy. College provides Ada with opportunities for academic success, experimentation, and independence, as well as heartbreak. Despite loss and grief over a decade, Ada's heart becomes her compass and guides her to fully become the leader and activist she'd always been deep inside.
Chizea's brilliant prose and storytelling skills are fully apparent as she reveals a young woman's struggle to find balance in her life and in herself while straddling physical and social borders of two distinctly different cultures.
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Details
- Author
- Ebele Chizea
- Narrator
- Nene Nwoko
- Duration
- 10 hours 33 minutes
- Release Date
- 30 September 2025
- ISBN
- 9798331945824
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Tantor Media, Inc
- Genre
- Children’s / Teenage fiction: Magical realism, Children’s / Teenage fiction: General fiction, Children’s / Teenage fiction: General fiction, Children’s / Teenage general interest: Places and peoples, Children’s / Teenage fiction: Relationship stories – Romance, love or friendship, Children’s / Teenage fiction: Historical fiction, Children’s / Teenage fiction: Historical fiction
Synopsis
Winner, Foreword INDIES Book of the Year: Young Adult Fiction!In Ebele Chizea's stunning debut, teenager Ada and her mother flee the civil war of their West African home and come to America in 1966, where Ada soon discovers—and blossoms within—the US counterculture movement, developing a drive for anti-war activism which she takes with her back to Nabuka only to uncover new truths about herself as well as family secrets.While protesting the Vietnam war, Ada forges friendships with other nonconformist youth: free-spirited Stacey, a boisterous hippie, and Sal, a philosophical wanderlust. Soon she seeks independence from her mother, love on her own terms, as well as sexual autonomy. College provides Ada with opportunities for academic success, experimentation, and independence, as well as heartbreak. Despite loss and grief over a decade, Ada's heart becomes her compass and guides her to fully become the leader and activist she'd always been deep inside.Chizea's brilliant prose and storytelling skills are fully apparent as she reveals a young woman's struggle to find balance in her life and in herself while straddling physical and social borders of two distinctly different cultures.
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