Ade, Rebecca Walker
Ade, Rebecca Walker
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Adé
A Love Story

Author: Rebecca Walker

Narrator: Janina Edwards

Unabridged: 3 hr 21 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download (DRM Protected)

Published: 10/29/2013

Synopsis

In this stunning debut novella, Rebecca Walker turns her attention to the power of love and the limitations of the human heart. When Farida, a sophisticated college student, falls in love with Adé, a young Swahili man living on an idyllic island off the coast of Kenya, the two plan to marry and envision a simple life together—free of worldly possessions and concerns. But when Farida contracts malaria and finds herself caught in the middle of a civil war, reality crashes in around them. The lovers’ solitude is interrupted by a world in the throes of massive upheaval that threatens to tear them apart, along with all they cherish.Haunting, exquisite, and certain to become a classic, Adé will stay with you long after you put it down. This is a timeless love story set perfectly, heartbreakingly, in our time.

About Rebecca Walker

Rebecca Walker has contributed to the global conversation about race, gender, power, and the evolution of the human family for three decades. Since graduating from Yale, she has authored and edited seven bestselling books. Walker has written, developed, and produced film and television projects with Warner Brothers, NBC Universal, Amazon, HBO, and Paramount, and spoken at over four hundred universities and corporate campuses internationally, including Harvard, The Whitney Museum, and TEDx Lund. Walker cofounded the Third Wave Fund, which makes grants to women and transgender youth working for social justice. Walker has won many awards, including the Women Who Could Be President Award from the League of Women Voters, was named by Time magazine as one of the most influential leaders of her generation, and continues to teach her masterclass, The Art of Memoir.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Karen

Our unnamed narrator, a biracial college student who is traveling through Africa, falls in love with a Swahili man she meets on an island just off the Kenyan coast. The problem with this is that she grows apart from her traveling buddy, her white best friend. (They had planned this trip as a two-yea......more

Goodreads review by Shannon

She is nineteen, half black, daughter to successful but divorced parents. At Yale University she meets Miriam, a vivacious, confident twenty-one-year-old woman who, with her forceful, lively nature, takes her younger friend under her wing and introduces her to the wider world - both at home and abro......more

Goodreads review by Mayka

Disclaimer: I have lots of bias for this book. I'm a sucker for culture. I'm a sucker for immediate, unquestionable love. Particularly when it is met with heartache. But mostly I'm biased because this book was the soundbooktrack to my engagement. My then-boyfriend and I had pulled over mid-way through......more

Goodreads review by Melissa

Magical. Lyrical. Haunting. Those are the three words that came to mind from the first page of my copy of Rebecca Walker’s amazing novel Ade’, a Love Story, and by the time I was just a few more pages into the story, I was already swept into the tide of Farida’s life – from college student to world......more

Quotes

“Read this book! An incredible journey! A beautiful love story!” —Madonna“Memoirist Walker makes her fiction debut with a short, sad tale of love that flowers but cannot take root in Kenya. The prose is gorgeous.” —Kirkus Reviews“Vivid…[Adé] will not soon be forgotten.” —New York Journal of Books

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