01880cam a2200265 4500 762777050 TxAuBib 20230524120000.0 230405s2023||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780593133903 PAP 18.00 0593133900 PAP 18.00 TxAuBib Muchemi-Ndiritu, Irene. Lucky girl [BOOK] : a novel / Irene Muchemi-Ndiritu. New York : The Dial Press, 2023. 324 pages ; 21 cm. "Soila is a lucky girl by anyone's estimation. Raised by her stern, conservative mother and a chorus of aunts, she has lived a life of privilege in Nairobi. Soila is headstrong and outspoken, and she chafes against her mother's strict rules. After a harrowing assault by a trusted family friend, she flees to New York for college, vowing never to return home. New York is not what she imagined it would be. Instead of a golden land of opportunity, Soila finds herself shocked by the entitlement of her wealthy American classmates and the poverty she sees in the streets. She befriends a Black American girl at school and witnesses the acts of racism her friend endures, forcing Soila to acknowledge the legacy of slavery and the blind spots afforded by the privilege of her Kenyan upbringing. When she falls in love with a free-spirited artist, a man her mother would never approve of, she must decide whether to honor her Kenyan identity and what she owes to her family, or to follow her heart and forge a life of her own design". 20230524. Women, Black Fiction. Group identity Fiction. Racism Fiction. Man-woman relationships Fiction. New York (N.Y) Fiction. Coming of age.