Twelve stories by the young Nigerian bestselling author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Nigeria - North America: two worlds separated by an apparently insurmountable chasm. The Nigerian homeland hovers between tradition and modernity, threatened by violence and corruption. In America, on the other hand, life does not deliver on its promises. At the edges of both cultures, the precarious bonds between children and parents, as well as the hidden vibrations between men and women, are explored: love is tested by distance, and finding one another is more difficult than expected. Tensions creep into families as the whirlpool of life pulls its members along. These sensual yet clear insights into the turmoil of Nigerian life, but primarily of human life in general, make these stories not just narratives of an outsider.