Kapitel „Omelogor“

“But in America I had no friends.”

Omelogor, Kapitel 8

“If our daughters do not know how beautiful they are, just as they are, then surely we have failed.”

“’My point, which seems self-evident enough, is that every woman has a story like this, where a man has lied to her or betrayed her...

Kapitel „Kadiatou“

“They were Nigerians, Kadiatou could tell, from their glaze of self-assurance (…)”

Kapitel Zikora

“Zikora would never admit this to anybody, but Pope Benedict left a sourness in her soul.”

Zikora felt a bifurcation of self, two parts of her existing in parallel. At work she was meticulous, skeptical, reading everything twice and asking questions,...