Who’s ready for a contemporary novel that will make you feel all the feels? 🙌 Twice as Perfect follows a Nigerian Canadian girl dealing with an estranged older brother, helping her cousin plan a big Nigerian wedding, and pressure from her parents about her future. This beautiful and heartfelt story was everything we wanted and more, but if you need some extra incentive to pick this one up, be sure to check out this interview with author Louisa Onomé! What makes Adanna fierce? Adanna is fierce because she knows who she is and what she wants. She also knows what she's good at academically, and uses that to her advantage to make high school a pretty easy experience for her. If you could give Adanna one piece of advice, what would it be? Lighten up, sis! What's the most interesting thing you learned while researching Twice as Perfect? Nigeria is a vast country with hundreds of spoken languages and different tribes, so I had to do a bit of research into some marriage customs for Yoruba tribes. Not a whole lot made it into the book, but having that foundation was important to me because I wanted to approach things from an inherent understanding that my culture is not monolithic. If you'd met Adanna as a teen, would you have been friends with her? I think I would have! When I was a teen, I was really academically minded like Ada is. But I think her determination would've scared me a little. What's one fun fact most people don't know about you? Water is legit my favorite drink. Cold water with ice, room temperature water, (on occasion) fizzy water, I'll drink all of it! What's your favorite part of being an author? Coming up with stories and characters that are fun and engaging is always a highlight! Hearing what readers think of my books is always fun too. What's the most challenging part of being an author? Transcribing my thoughts onto paper. I can see things really well, but sometimes I find my vocabulary lacking. It can be a bit hard for me to describe what I'm imagining, but thankfully, revisions help with that a lot. What 3 words would you use to describe Twice as Perfect? Funny. Charming. Real. ABOUT THE BOOK She thinks the only things worth doing are those that will lead to success. For seventeen-year-old Adanna Nkwachi, life is all about duty: to school and the debate team, to her Nigerian parents, and even to her cousin Genny as Adanna helps prepare Genny’s wedding to Afrobeats superstar Skeleboy. Because ever since her older brother, Sam, had a fight with their parents a few years ago and disappeared, somebody had to fill the void he left behind. Adanna may never understand what caused Sam to leave home, but the one thing she knows is that it’s on her to make sure her parents’ sacrifices aren’t in vain. One day, chance brings the siblings together again and they start working to repair their bond. Although she fears how their parents will react if they find out, Adanna’s determined to get answers about the night Sam left—Sam, who was supposed to be an engineer but is now, what, a poet? The more she learns about Sam’s poetry, the more Adanna begins to wonder if maybe her own happiness is just as important as doing what’s expected of her. Amid parental pressure, anxiety over the debate competition, a complicated love life, and the Nigerian wedding-to-end-all-weddings, can Adanna learn, just this once, to put herself first?