Eniola is tall for his age, a boy who looks like a man. Because his father has lost his job, Eniola spends his days running errands for the local tailor, collecting newspapers, begging when he must, dreaming of a big future.
Wuraola is a golden girl, the perfect child of a wealthy family. Now an exhausted young doctor in her first year of practice, she is beloved by Kunle, the volatile son of an ascendant politician.
When a local politician takes an interest in Eniola and sudden violence shatters a family party, Wuraolas and Eniolas lives become intertwined. In her breathtaking second novel, Ay?`bámi Adébáy?` shines her light on Nigeria, on the gaping divide between the haves and the have-nots, and the shared humanity that lives in between.
