During a Dry Season - Paperback
During a Dry Season - Paperback
Description
by Portia Tewogbade (Author)
During a Dry Season weaves the vivid sights and sounds of urban Nigeria into a complicated story of a poor Brooklyn girl's life in her wealthy husband's country. When her troublesome mother-in-law arrives on the first winds of Nigeria's dry season, Garnett Adewale's hopes for happiness are blown away. In a culture that demands respect for elders, she is powerless against the old woman, who hates her because she is an American with a womb that is "as barren as a brick." Blindly in love, Garnett tolerates her husband's infidelity and tries to cope with his beautiful but bewildering country. It all begins to collapse when her mother-in-law goads her into telling a desperate lie. The events that follow soon bring this story of love, betrayal, corruption, and cultural conflict to a violent end.
Author Biography
Portia Tewogbade is an award-winning author, who taught English for several years at Georgia Tech and Nigeria's Federal Government College in Kaduna. Her short stories have appeared in African Voices, Mobius: The Journal of Social Change, and the Hawaii Pacific Review, among other publications. She is writing a second novel near her hometown of Atlanta, Georgia
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