Even then, I felt that there was a theatrical quality to the way the drawers were flung open, as if it had been done by somebody who wanted to make an impression on the discoverers. Or perhaps it was simply that I knew my brother so well. Later, when my parents came home and neighbors began to troop in to say ndo , and to snap their fingers and heave their shoulders up and down, I sat alone in my room upstairs and realized what the queasiness in my gut was: Nnamabia had done it, I knew.
My father knew, too. Nnamabia stared at my father with dramatic, wounded eyes and said, 'I know I have caused you both terrible pain in the past, but I would never violate your trust like this. Then he walked out through the back door and did not come home that night. Or the next night. Or the night after. He came home two weeks later, gaunt, smelling of beer, crying, saying he was sorry and he had pawned the jewelry to the Hausa traders in Enugu and all the money was gone.
And when he told her, she placed both hands on her head and cried, 'Oh! Chi m egbuo m! The thing around your neck Item Preview. EMBED for wordpress. Want more? Advanced embedding details, examples, and help! Cell one -- Imitation -- A private experience -- Ghosts -- On Monday of last week -- Jumping monkey hill -- The thing around your neck -- The American embassy -- The shivering -- The arrangers of marriage -- Tomorrow is too far -- The headstrong historian.
Ukamaka refreshes web pages, checking Nigerian news sources for news of a plane crash in Nigeria. She worries that her ex-boyfriend, Udenna , was on the plane. Chinedu , another Nigerian man from her building, knocks on her door and asks to pray with her for Nigeria.
Ukamaka learns that Udenna wasn't on the flight. Over the next several weeks, Chinedu and Ukamaka become friends and Ukamaka talks at length about her relationship with Udenna. They shop together and she drives him to his Pentecostal church on Sundays before attending her own Catholic church.
They argue one day when Chinedu shares that he dated a controlling man and Ukamaka says that Chinedu's partner sounds like Udenna. The next Sunday Chinedu admits that he's not a student; he's hiding from the government to avoid a deportation notice, as his visa expired three years ago. Chinedu accompanies Ukamaka to Mass. Her aunt and uncle arranged the marriage and thought it was a good thing: Ofodile is a doctor. Chinaza is immediately disillusioned, as Ofodile's "house" is a sparsely furnished apartment.
Ofodile shows her around New York and corrects her every time she uses an Igbo or British English word instead of its American counterpart. Chinaza later meets Nia , a young woman who lives in the apartment building. Chinaza thinks that Nia looks like a prostitute, but she likes listening to Nia talk. One night, Ofodile admits that he married an American woman to get his green card and the woman is refusing to divorce him.
Chinaza goes to Nia's apartment, where Nia admits that she slept with Ofodile two years ago. She encourages Chinaza to stick with Ofodile until her papers come through, and Chinaza goes back to her husband the next night. She remembers her childhood summers in Nigeria when her Grandmama only praised the narrator's brother, Nonso , and ignored the narrator and her cousin, Dozie.
Dozie was the "wrong grandson" and the narrator was female. One day Nonso fell out of the avocado tree and died. Three months after Nonso's funeral, the narrator told her mother that Grandmama played a trick on Nonso and he fell out of the tree.
The narrator then explains what really happened: the narrator felt that something had to happen to Nonso so that the narrator could get some of her mother's love. She tricked Nonso into climbing the tree, and yelled that a poisonous snake was near him when he reached the top. He died instantly. The narrator's mother never gave the narrator the love she hoped for after Nonso's death, however. In the present, the narrator asks Dozie what he wanted that summer, and he says he only cared about what the narrator wanted.
Following Obierika's murder by his two cousins, Nwambga decides to put Anikwenwa in a Catholic mission school so he can learn English and take his father's cousins to court. Anikwenwa hates school at first, but soon becomes very devout. He becomes a teacher and refuses to eat his mother's food , though he does win Nwambga's land case for her.
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