Ada's room
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Cho-Polizzi, Jon, translator.
Published
New York : Riverhead Books, 2023.
ISBN
9780593539798, 0593539796
Status
Indian Prairie Public Library District - 1st Floor
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Published
New York : Riverhead Books, 2023.
Format
Book
Physical Desc
338 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
ISBN
9780593539798, 0593539796

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"A kaleidoscopic novel spanning generations and continents, that reveals the connections between four women in their struggle for survival. A woman in 15th century West Africa named Ada buries her child and confronts a Portuguese enslaver. A woman in Victorian England named Ada Lovelace, a mathematical genius and computer programming pioneer, tries to hide her affair with Charles Dickens from her husband. A woman named Ada, imprisoned in a concentration camp at Mittelbau-Dora in 1945, will survive one more day in enforced prostitution. Connected by an unknown but sentient spirit, and a bracelet of fertility beads that each Ada encounters at a pivotal moment in her life, these women share a name and a purpose. As their interwoven narratives converge on a modern day Ada, a young Ghanaian woman who finds herself pregnant, alone, in Berlin, searching for a home before her baby arrives, their shared spirit will find a way to help her break the vicious cycle of injustice. This novel is a feat of imagination and breaks down simplistic notions of history as a straight line; one woman's experience matters to another's 400 years later, on a different continent. In this deeply moving, at times mordantly funny, ultimately hopeful book, there is a connection between all those fighting for love, for family, for justice, for a home"--,Provided by publisher.
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Translated from the German.

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Otoo, S. D., & Cho-Polizzi, J. (2023). Ada's room (First American edition.). Riverhead Books.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Otoo, Sharon Dodua and Jon, Cho-Polizzi. 2023. Ada's Room. Riverhead Books.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Otoo, Sharon Dodua and Jon, Cho-Polizzi. Ada's Room Riverhead Books, 2023.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Otoo, Sharon Dodua, and Jon Cho-Polizzi. Ada's Room First American edition., Riverhead Books, 2023.

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