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Reviewed on June 3, 2022 | Fiction
DEBUT Patience Adewale is anything but. Raised in Idaban, Nigeria, by a controlling father and an indifferent stepmother, she has waited impatiently for someone to explain why the family evicted her mother in disgrace when Patience was too young to comprehend. Is her mother even alive? If so, how could she have left her daughter with this palpable longing for the love she imagines only a mother can provide? A decade later, setting off for university in Lagos...Log In or Sign Up to Read More