![]() ![]() “On Ohaeto Street” gives us a somewhat reluctant bride who discovers her husband loves his car more than he loves her, forming an instant bond with a lot of American women right there. ![]() But they are all different and face different issues. The first five stories are set in Nigeria the sixth concerns a woman preparing to emigrate the US, and the last four show Nigerian women after migration here. Okparanta has generated a lot of buzz, and I was curious to see the kind of scope a collection about nine different Nigerian women could generate. I chose this book because I’ve quite enjoyed the work of several other Nigerian women over the past few years. Perhaps the lucky ones learn to live with that, the verge of happiness. Rooted in domestic drama – marriages, families, and the conflicts that arise – the stories in this collection look at women struggling to cup their hands around happiness, and finding, in most cases, it runs right through their fingers. ![]()
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