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Ada'S Room: A Novel
Riverhead Books
ISBN13:
9780593539798
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A kaleidoscopic novel spanning generations and continents, that reveals the connections between four women in their struggle for survival. A woman in 15th century West Africa named Ada buries her child and confronts a Portuguese enslaver. A woman in Victorian England named Ada Lovelace, a mathematical genius and computer programming pioneer, tries to hide her affair with Charles Dickens from her husband. A woman named Ada, imprisoned in a concentration camp at Mittelbau-Dora in 1945, will survive one more day in enforced prostitution. Connected by an unknown but sentient spirit, and a bracelet of fertility beads that each Ada encounters at a pivotal moment in her life, these women share a name and a purpose. As their interwoven narratives converge on a modern day Ada, a young Ghanaian woman who finds herself pregnant, alone, in Berlin, searching for a home before her baby arrives, their shared spirit will find a way to help her break the vicious cycle of injustice. This novel is a feat of imagination and breaks down simplistic notions of history as a straight line; one womans experience matters to anothers 400 years later, on a different continent. In this deeply moving, at times mordantly funny, ultimately hopeful book, there is a connection between all those fighting for love, for family, for justice, for a home.
- | Author: Sharon Dodua Otoo
- | Publisher: Riverhead Books
- | Publication Date: Mar 28, 2023
- | Number of Pages: 352 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Hardcover
- | ISBN-10: 0593539796
- | ISBN-13: 9780593539798
- Author:
- Sharon Dodua Otoo
- Publisher:
- Riverhead Books
- Publication Date:
- Mar 28, 2023
- Number of pages:
- 352 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Hardcover
- ISBN-10:
- 0593539796
- ISBN-13:
- 9780593539798