Even When Your Voice Shakes
by Ruby Yayra Goka
Pub Date 15 Feb 2022 | Archive Date 31 Jan 2022
W. W. Norton & Company, Norton Young Readers
OwnVoices | Teens & YA
I am reviewing a copy Of Even When Your Voice Shakes through W.W Norton & Company, Norton Young Readers and Netgalley:
After Amerley is offered a job working for one of her mother’s old school friends, she knows she has to accept. Her wages will be used to help feed her family as well as help her sisters at stay in school, and ensure that her mother won’t have to worry about them. Amerley’s move to Accra isn’t easy, but she soon settles into her new life away from her small village—until she is raped by the son of her employer. Between keeping quiet to keep her job and speaking up for herself and for justice, Amerley must decide how to live her truth, and the impact of her choice will be felt through her entire community.
Even When Your Voice Shakes exposes the damage wrought by institutionalized misogyny and poverty and reveals how even those who are most disadvantaged are never without their own power.
I give Even When Your Voice Shakes five out of five stars!
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