Adjapon, Bisi
 
ISBN 9780063089006, 0063089009
Paperback | 400 pages
 
The acclaimed author of The Teller of Secrets returns with a gut-wrenching yet heartwarming story about a young Ghanaian woman’s struggle to make a life in the US and the challenges she must overcome.
 
“Daughter in Exile is an admirable addition to an impressive body of works produced by immigrant women writers: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah, Imbolo Mbue’s Behold the Dreamers, and Yaa Gyasi’s Homegoing. This novel is definitely worth reading.”—World Literature Today
 
Lola is twenty-one, and her life in Senegal couldn’t be better. An aspiring writer and university graduate, she has a great job, a nice apartment, a vibrant social life, and a future filled with possibility. But fate disrupts her world when she falls for Armand, an American marine stationed at the US Embassy. Her mother, a high court judge in Ghana, disapproves of her choice, but nothing will stop Lola from boarding a plane for Armand and America.
 
That fateful flight is only the beginning of an extraordinary journey; Lola has traded her carefree existence in Senegal for the perilous position of an undocumented immigrant in 1990s America. She encounters adversity that would crush a less-determined woman. Her fate hangs on whether or not she’ll grow in courage to forge a different life from the one she’d imagined and whether she’ll succeed in putting herself and her family together again.
 
Daughter in Exile is a hope-filled story about mother love, resilience, and unyielding strength.