Preview
  • Mangoes in the Rain

  • No One Can Take Away Your Imaginations
  • By: Chinaemelum Menakaya
  • Narrated by: Laura Bee
  • Length: 1 hr and 46 mins
  • 5.0 out of 5 stars (2 ratings)

Prime logo Prime members: New to Audible?
Get 2 free audiobooks during trial.
Pick 1 audiobook a month from our unmatched collection.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, Originals, and podcasts.
Access exclusive sales and deals.
Premium Plus auto-renews for $14.95/mo after 30 days. Cancel anytime.

Mangoes in the Rain

By: Chinaemelum Menakaya
Narrated by: Laura Bee
Try for $0.00

$14.95/month after 30 days. Cancel anytime.

Buy for $6.95

Buy for $6.95

Pay using card ending in
By confirming your purchase, you agree to Audible's Conditions of Use and Amazon's Privacy Notice. Taxes where applicable.

Publisher's summary

In 2002, 15-year-old Chinaemelum leaves America to go to Nigeria for summer break. Months later, she fights for her life against malaria. Summer is over, and her father refuses to give her back her passport to return to America with her mother.

She is kept in Nigeria against her will. He puts her in an all-girls boarding school, where she struggles to adapt to life in a third world country. Two and a half years later, she and her siblings escape out of their father's house to the American Embassy in Lagos for hopes of leaving Nigeria.

She is adamant about expressing her trauma of abandonment, abuse, and her survival mechanism then and now. Out of this tragedy, she's able to overcome and be a success today. She voices the portrayals of her childhood and teen years growing up as a Nigerian American in America to Nigerian parents.

Raised in Silver Spring, Maryland, by a Christian pastor and his wife, life is portrayed in public as a God-fearing couple, but behind close doors Chinaemelum witness her father often beating her mother. He eventually begins to abuse Chinaemelum, by calling her a whore and a prostitute at age 13.

Chinaemelum had high hopes when she heard she was going to Nigeria for the summer. She had no idea the gravity of the horrific adventure about to take place. Chinaemelum has been writing for more than 12 years. She is the author of her first book called Mangoes in the Rain.

©2020 Chinamelum Menakaya (P)2020 Chinaemelum Menakaya
activate_Holiday_promo_in_buybox_DT_T2

What listeners say about Mangoes in the Rain

Average customer ratings
Overall
  • 5 out of 5 stars
  • 5 Stars
    2
  • 4 Stars
    0
  • 3 Stars
    0
  • 2 Stars
    0
  • 1 Stars
    0
Performance
  • 5 out of 5 stars
  • 5 Stars
    2
  • 4 Stars
    0
  • 3 Stars
    0
  • 2 Stars
    0
  • 1 Stars
    0
Story
  • 5 out of 5 stars
  • 5 Stars
    2
  • 4 Stars
    0
  • 3 Stars
    0
  • 2 Stars
    0
  • 1 Stars
    0

Reviews - Please select the tabs below to change the source of reviews.

Sort by:
Filter by:
  • Overall
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Performance
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Story
    5 out of 5 stars

Wow! Wow! Wow!!!

I definitely expected a good book, but Lord have mercy I was blown away. I can attest to the fact that everything in this book is factual. The book is written so beautifully. I literally listened to this in one sitting. I couldn’t stop listening. I cried and I laughed and I can’t believe how good this book is!!! Wowowww!! I believe this is a book that everyone should listen to. At least just to get an idea of how some people are living and why we have to do better to make sure families and communities across the world are more stabilized. I admire how the author was able to explain how she overcame her childhood trauma. This is a book that doesn’t just highlight success but shows the journey she had to go to the get there. I LOVED it!

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!

  • Overall
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Performance
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Story
    5 out of 5 stars

Beautiful story of affirmation

What a fantastic story of affirmation and coming into ones own after a lifetime of trauma.

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!