Thanks to Dutton Books for the free copy of this book.

Fourteen year old Adunni lives in rural Nigeria. After her mother's unexpected death, her family runs out of money and Adunni's father sells her off to a marriage with an older man whose two existing wives have not given him sons. Adunni's mother always told her an education was the way out of a life of poverty and subservience, and she is determined to find her voice.

THE GIRL WITH THE LOUDING VOICE is a coming-of-age story of a girl who must fight for her girlhood and her adulthood. I loved Adunni immediately - she has a big personality and is impossible not to root for. She's up against so much and never loses sight of her goal of education, patriarchy be damned.

Some turns of the plot felt a bit too coincidental to me, a few too many things falling exactly into place to get us to the next step. Ultimately, though, Adunni was a compelling enough protagonist that I had to know what happened to her next.