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A young Nigerian lady moves from one aimless relationship to another in search of purpose and meaning. She experiences it all: an arranged marriage to a suitor whom she never met living abroad, early widowhood, a new lease of life offered through education, and five failed relationships. She undergoes an epiphany which offers clarity, but will her new version be enough or will her past entanglements permanently define her and her choices?
A young Nigerian lady moves from one aimless relationship to another in search of purpose and meaning. She experiences it all: an arranged marriage to a suitor whom she never met living abroad, early widowhood, a new lease of life offered through education, and five failed relationships. She undergoes an epiphany which offers clarity, but will her new version be enough or will her past entanglements permanently define her and her choices?
The novel interrogates the dynamics of challenging relationships, betrayals, forgiveness, and healing. When the pressure of having a male child becomes overwhelming, Adaugo seeks for ways to save her failing marriage. She blames her husband's infidelity on her inadequacies. The many marital challenges she experiences seem to be machinations of her fate. Nothing seems to save her marriage but Adaugo's love for her daughters. Will she leave, or will she stay to fight for her marriage? She turns to God and finds strength, not just to move on, but to extend forgiveness to her husband.
This legendary work consists of alphabetically arranged genealogical tables of approximately 500 Rhode Island families, representing thousands of descendants of pre--1690 settlers, all carried to the third generation, and some--about 100 families-- carried to the fourth.
Originally published: New York: Simon & Schuster, 2011.
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Kevin Kwan, bestselling author of Crazy Rich Asians - now a smash hit international film - is back with a wickedly funny new novel of social climbing, secret emails, art-world scandal, lovesick billionaires, and the outrageous story of what happens when Rachel Chu, engaged to marry Asia's most eligible bachelor, discovers her birth father. On the eve of her wedding to Nicholas Young, heir to one of the greatest fortunes in Asia, Rachel should be over the moon. She has a flawless Asscher-cut diamond from JAR, a wedding dress she loves more than anything found in the salons of Paris and a fiance willing to sacrifice his entire inheritance in order to marry her. But Rachel still mourns the fact...
Packed with over 10,000 entries, this is the directory to special events, holidays, ethnic celebrations, anniversaries, celebrity birthdays, regional and local festivals, historic benchmarks, and traditional and whimsical observances of all kinds the world over. A one-of-a-kind directory to what's happening when, where, and why. Line drawings.