Nigerian culture is alluded to subtly, as with the sister father’s wooden cane: its intricate carvings capture the past, but its legacy of violence stretches out into the future.īy the final chapters, the book has so much going on that it becomes difficult to tell how the various storylines are intertwining. The traffic jams, the cops, the rain that breaks umbrellas – this novel makes full use of Lagos's characterīraithwaite lives in Lagos, and she makes full use of the city’s character – the traffic jams, the cops, the rain that breaks umbrellas – to give the story a remarkably strong sense of place. In a different sense, it may well turn the doctor inside out, too. “Seeing them together turns me inside out,” Korede laments. Once the tears start to flow, it all gets a bit schmaltzy. Initially, though, Braithwaite pulls her punches on the serial-killer storyline: Korede spends more time being scared that Ayoola will steal her crush than that she’ll stab him. It’s a classic love triangle, with the added twist of the knife Ayoola takes with her on dates.
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