Author:
Angel-Ajani, Asale.
Imprint:Berkeley, CA : Seal Press, c2010.
Description327 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Note:Prologue : cui bono -- American girl, Roman prison -- Urbi et orbi -- The place to be -- Mary and James -- A martyr and the murderess -- A year like any other -- Letters -- Death, a fragment -- Family sublime -- Tempting matrons -- Note to self -- Speaking in tongues -- The branches and the vine -- Changes -- Drug orphan -- Monrovia bound -- A business of virtues -- All our kin -- Meeting Emmanuel -- Educating Pauline -- Ourselves or nothing -- Temporary assignment -- Uganda -- Singapore -- I belong here -- Straight is the gate, narrow is the way -- Tomorrow the past will come -- The oracle -- Marooned -- Exit Emmanuel -- Waiting rituals -- Becoming boss -- Dust of living -- Diagnosis -- Salutations from sunny Nigeria -- Respect -- Metamorphosis -- All-African summit -- Underneath oblivion -- Guarded privacies -- So gentle a woman -- Out of time -- Seasons of sun and rain -- A tiny, harmless death -- The quality of light -- Epilogue : straitjackets.
