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Patience Is a Subtle Thief audiobook

  • By: Abi Ishola-Ayodeji
  • Narrator: Liz Femi
  • Length: 11 hours 28 minutes
  • Publisher: HarperAudio
  • Publish date: May 03, 2022
  • Language: English
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Patience Is a Subtle Thief Audiobook Summary

Hope and circumstance define a young woman’s life in this heartbreaking tale of lost innocence, set in politically volatile 1990s Nigeria, from an exciting and fresh voice in global literature.

For as long as she can remember, Patience Adewale, the eldest daughter of Chief Kolade Adewale, has been waiting for confirmation that she is loved, that there is a place where she truly belongs. Patience lives a sheltered life within the secure walls of the family’s mansion in Ibadan, but finds no comfort from her distant father and stepmother Modupe. Her only ally is her younger sister, yet even Margaret’s love and support cannot overcome Patience’s insecurity and uncertainty.

More than anything, Patience wants to know why her father and uncle banished her mother from their compound years ago–and whether her mother is even alive. Determined to discover the truth, Patience embarks on a desperate search to find her mother. Answers begin to surface when she moves to Lagos for university and unexpectedly reconnects with her cousin Kash.

Kash and his friend Emeka are petty thieves with an opportunity to make a big score. To pull it off they need help–and enlist Patience and Emeka’s straight-arrow brother, Chike, to become partners in their scheme. The thieves’ plan is to quit after this job. But unforeseen events lead to unexpected consequences–and demand a price from Patience that may be too steep to pay.

Suspenseful and evoking the subtleties of Nigerian life in an fresh and unexpected way, Patience Is a Subtle Thief is a heart-wrenching story of one young woman’s precarious journey to adulthood, and the risks and sacrifices it takes to follow her heart.

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Patience Is a Subtle Thief Audiobook Narrator

Liz Femi is the narrator of Patience Is a Subtle Thief audiobook that was written by Abi Ishola-Ayodeji

Abi Ishola-Ayodeji is an award winning journalist who has written for several publications including ELLE.com, Essence, The Huffington Post, and Ebony. In 2017 she was named among Essence Magazine’s Woke 100 Women for launching Beyond Classically Beautiful, a photo series that celebrates the diverse beauty of Black women. For Channel 75 in New York, she’s produced several documentaries, including one on the opening of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture and a four part series titled “Enter West Africa” for which she covered different issues plaguing Nigeria and Ghana.

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Patience Is a Subtle Thief Full Details

Narrator Liz Femi
Length 11 hours 28 minutes
Author Abi Ishola-Ayodeji
Publisher HarperAudio
Release date May 03, 2022
ISBN 9780063116986

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The publisher of the Patience Is a Subtle Thief is HarperAudio. The imprint is HarperAudio. It is supplied by HarperAudio. The ISBN-13 is 9780063116986.

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This book is only available in the United States.

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