# Purple Hibiscus

**Author:** Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
**Lexile:** 920L
**Grade range:** Grades 10–12
**Age range:** 14–18
**First published:** 2003
**Page count:** 336
**Genre:** Literary Fiction
**ISBN-13:** `9781616202415`
**ISBN-10:** `1616202416`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/purple-hibiscus
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## About this book

Fifteen-year-old Kambili grows up in postcolonial Nigeria under a wealthy, devoutly Catholic father whose public generosity masks private tyranny. When she and her brother stay with their freethinking aunt, Kambili glimpses a different kind of family and begins to find her own voice. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's debut is increasingly assigned in grades 10-12 and world-literature courses for its coming-of-age and postcolonial themes.

## Themes

- family
- religion
- coming of age
- colonialism
- domestic violence

## Content notes

- domestic violence
- religious extremism

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