Zweigstelle	Standort 2	Signatur	Status	Frist	Lageplan
Zweigstelle: Hauptstelle	Standort 2: Erwachsenenbibliothek/1.OG	Signatur: Obar FE	Status: Verfügbar	Frist:	Lagepläne: Lageplan

Funmi, Enitan, and Zainab first meet at university in Nigeria and become friends for life despite their differences. Funmi is beautiful, brash, and determined; Enitan is homely and eager, seeking escape from her single mother's smothering and needy love; Zainab is elegant and reserved, raised by her father's first two wives after her mother's death in childbirth. Their friendship is complicated but enduring, and over the course of the novel, the reader learns about their loves and losses. How Funmi stole Zainab's boyfriend and became pregnant, only to have an abortion and lose the boyfriend to police violence. How Enitan was seduced by an American Peace Corps volunteer, the only one who ever really saw her, but is culturally so different from him a Connecticut WASP that raising their daughter together put them at odds. How Zainab fell in love with her teacher, a friend of her father s, and ruptured her relationship with her father to have him. (Verlagstext)