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Amma

This character is an independent playwright and theatre director whose works are largely driven by her feminist ideals. Her latest production, The Last Amazon of Dahomey, is opening at the National Theatre, and this event brings many of the novel's main characters into the same setting.

Yazz

This character is a 19-year-old university student studying English Literature. She hopes to become a journalist. She was raised in a nontraditional household by an independent, lesbian, feminist mother and an intellectual, gay father.

Dominique

This character is a black feminist lesbian woman who grew up in England and now resides in Los Angeles, where she runs a Women's Art Festival.

Carole

This character is born of Nigerian immigrants and raised in England. She was traumatically gang-raped at the age of 13, but despite this tragedy, she emerged as one of the top students in her class, eventually attending Oxford. Now she...

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