Two teenage girls deal with spirits in West Africa. Ozoemena has been chosen to be the family's next leopard. The leopard spirit is stalking her, waiting for her to agree to the merge. She, on the other hand, is still angry at her father, who has left the family to find his brother's spirit, the last leopard.
Treasure's father is also gone but he has died. Before he died, Treasure and her mother lived with him in a nice house with anything they wanted. But after his death, his brothers moved in and took everything, evicting the two women. They now live in a hovel, often hungry unless Treasure is able to scrounge some food somehow. She makes a deal with a spirit to find him wives if he will introduce her to the Bone Woman. The Bone Woman can bring back her father from the dead.
The two girls hurtle down their separate paths, both trying to restore their families. But their paths will collide and only one can survive. Which will it be?
Chikodili Emelumadu was raised in Nigeria. This is her debut novel and for most readers it will be an introduction to the culture and superstitions of West Africa. The girls recognize the value of an education and both long to be in a school situation. Both girls use what they know to try to patch their broken families and both soon realize that they have gotten in over their heads. This book is recommended for readers of literary fiction, especially international fiction.
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