A novel about race, sex, class, and love?from an author at the beginning of a major career?Tomi Obaro?s sparkling debut tells the story of three once-inseparable college friends in Nigeria who reunite for the first time in 30 years at a lavish wedding in Lagos for one of their daughters.Funmi, Enitan, and Zainab first meet at university in Nigeria, and became friends for life despite their differences. Funmi is beautiful, brash, and determined; Enitan is homely and eager, seeking escape from her single mother's smothering and needy love; Zainab is elegant and reserved, raised by her father's first two wives after her mother's death in childbirth. Their friendship is complicated but enduring, and over the course of the novel, the reader learns about their loves and losses. How Funmi stole Zainab's boyfriend and became pregnant, only to have an abortion and lose the boyfriend to police violence. How Enitan was seduced by an American Peace Corps volunteer, the only one who ever really
Author : Tomi Obaro
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ISBN-10 : 9780593314500
ISBN-13 : 9780593314500