02053cam a2200313 4500 615933303 TxAuBib 20230227120000.0 220809s2023||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2022037626 9780063089020 HRD 27.99 0063089025 HRD 27.99 TxAuBib Adjapon, Bisi. Daughter in exile [BOOK] : a novel / Bisi Adjapon. 1st ed. New York, NY : HarperVia, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2023] 395 pages ; 24 cm. "At twenty-one, life in Senegal couldn't be better for Lola. An aspiring writer and university graduate, she has a great job, 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 U.S. Embassy. Her mother, a high court judge in Ghana who endeavors to keep her anchored to home, disapproves of her choice. Against her mother's wishes, Lola plans a future with Armand in America. But nothing is as simple as it seems. In fact, the young African graduate has no idea that her real journey is just beginning: she has traded her care-free life in Senegal for the perilous existence of an undocumented immigrant in America, a life featuring a darkly comic catalog of Dickensian characters, not to mention a fundamentalist church. Harrowing, eye-opening, and utterly unforgettable, Daughter in Exile is a story about motherhood, love and what defines us all"-- Provided by publisher. 20230227. Illegal immigration United States Fiction. Immigrants United States Fiction. Mothers and daughters Fiction. Man-woman relationships Fiction. Senegal Fiction. United States Fiction. Domestic fiction. Undocumented immigration United States Fiction.