Oof.  This book.  This is the third of my ten African books this year, and my favorite so far.  The chapters are short and poignant but flow together to paint a larger, brighter picture of traditional African society and one woman’s place in it. The characters live hard, determined lives.  There’s a drastic distance between rural village and urban (Lagos, in this case.)  It reminded me a bit of Things Fall Apart, since the story is told plainly, almost in the style of a folk […]