Point of View

This novel is told through the eyes and narrative voice of Ada. Ada is a young first-generation Nigerian girl living in America with her father. The novel is written through Ada’s experience and therefore illustrates her emotional, spiritual, and intellectual internal life and landscape as she grows up through childhood to eventually become a young woman with increased independence and self-determination. Throughout the novel, Ada endures many changes and explores a plethora of different potential perspectives of the world around her, and many of these changes stem from the influence of her age and differing levels of confidence depending on the environment she is in those ages. From a young age, Ada is presented with a strict and restrictive worldview through which she is encouraged to experience her own life, which ultimately leads to emotional strain and difficulty for Ada when her own personal...