First published 2024
Chiamaka sits alone in her American apartment during the pandemic, memories of past lovers flooding back. The Nigerian travel writer questions every choice that brought her here, every relationship that slipped away. Her best friend Zikora built a perfect legal career until betrayal shattered everything she trusted. Now the successful lawyer must reach out to someone she swore she'd never need. Meanwhile, Chiamaka's cousin Omelogor commands respect in Nigeria's financial world, but private doubts creep in about who she really is beneath the bold exterior. Across the ocean, Kadiatou works as Chiamaka's housekeeper, determined to build a better life for her daughter in America. When disaster strikes, everything she sacrificed to achieve hangs in the balance. These four women's lives intersect as each confronts the same impossible questions about love, happiness, and honesty. Adichie examines whether true contentment can last or only exists in fleeting moments.
Genres: literary-fiction, african-literature, contemporary, 21st-century, family-drama
Vibes: atmospheric, emotional, intimate, thought-provoking
Tropes: found-family, unreliable-narrator
Setting: America, Nigeria
Period: Contemporary
416 pages · Paperback · HARPER COLLINS