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Emezi, a National Book Award finalist, returns to young-adult fiction with this story inspired by West African culture. Somadina and her inseparable twin brother, Jayaike, are the last in their ...

She continued: "Within weird-girl fiction, women are allowed to be messy, to be angry, to be loud and within these books the main female characters are given permission to take up space." ...