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Helen doesn't want to stay in the fattening hut. She's told her mother that she's too young, not ready for it. Why must she marry so soon—and gorge on rich meals for months, until she's heavy and round, like a good bride? Like her mother and sister before her, like all the women of her tribe.
When she learns the terrible secret the fattening hut harbors, Helen becomes even more defiant and confused. Lonely, scared, and feeling confined by her family, culture, and tradition, she fights for a chance to be educated, young, and free.
The Fattening Hut is a lyrical and timeless tale about a teenage girl who struggles to reclaim her independence, her body, and her soul.
A teenage girl living on a tropical island runs away to escape her tribe's customs of arranged marriages and female genital mutilation.
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Randy Scopely
reviewed Fattening Hut on March 09, 2012
Fattening Hut
Heather Stewart
Multicultural
This work of fiction was based on cultures in Africa and deals with the customs that girls have to go through before they get married. Helen is put in the fattening hut to eat and do no work so she gains weight before being married to Esenu. Her outcast aunt gives her books telling about other cultures and she dreams of what it would be like. When she finds out about the cutting ritual she must endure she decides to run away. She is able to claim asylum and return to England on a ship with her younger sister. This book raised my awareness of the rituals of female circumcision and fattening rooms and how women are scarred by them but have no choice except to runaway. The topic may seem like it would be challenged but there aren't any graphic details.
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