My first picture book is coming out soon. I should be excited, but I feel a slight dread. I was told I had no right to write this fictional story inspired by my experiences as a hearing mother of a ...

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My father was a professor, and we lived on the University of Nigeria campus in a house full of books; bougainvillea plants lined our driveway in splashes of purple. This was the small, gated world of ...