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Plain Yellow
A Burt Award for African Literature Winning Book
Amerley is not your average teenager--well, she does love books and fashion and her boyfriend, Nikoi, but that is where the similarity ends. She's become a mother and a father to her three younger sisters, not that she minds because family means everything to Amerley.
When financial constraints make her relocate to a plush neighbourhood in East Legon, she puts her own dreams aside in order to be a maid to make her family's life better. But how far should her self-sacrifice go? Doesn't her own life matter? Will she always put her family first even when it puts her own life at risk?
Amerley is not your average teenager--well, she does love books and fashion and her boyfriend, Nikoi, but that is where the similarity ends. She's become a mother and a father to her three younger sisters, not that she minds because family means everything to Amerley.
When financial constraints make her relocate to a plush neighbourhood in East Legon, she puts her own dreams aside in order to be a maid to make her family's life better. But how far should her self-sacrifice go? Doesn't her own life matter? Will she always put her family first even when it puts her own life at risk?
186 pages, Paperback
Published November 7, 2016
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March 10, 2024
Plain Yellow is an amazing book for young readers. The book offers a glimpse into a situation that happens in so many Ghanaian communities today. Insights into rape, stigma and impoverished living conditions blend with the main character's story.
May 31, 2022
It’s nice
August 3, 2022
I want to read
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November 18, 2020
I love the book. My bro went to fix his grills, then brought me the book. Best book ever.
Watch out for the amazing ending. P.S. ebr got raped.
Watch out for the amazing ending. P.S. ebr got raped.
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