No Longer at Ease by Chinua Achebe

No Longer at Ease by Chinua AchebeObi Okonkwo is an idealistic young man who, thanks to the privileges of an education in Britain, has now returned to Nigeria for a job in the civil service. However in his new role he finds that the way of government seems to be backhanders and corruption. Obi manages to resist the bribes that are offered to him, but when he falls in love with an unsuitable girl to the disapproval of his parents he sinks further into emotional and financial turmoil.

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prominent white feminists broadly suffer from their own myopia with regard to how things like race

riveting familial mysteries

With sister Jess demanding a vegan turkey

checklists

half-glimpsed figures intent upon their own form of revenge

Colin will challenge every notion she's ever had about herself and her future

When I think about what I actually did

But the next day Margo doesn’t come to school and a week later she is still missing

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she increasingly escapes through her hospital window into visions of horror and delight

but that’s not all he wants with her