Baltimore: PublishAmerica, (2005). First edition - Nigerian author's first novel, the story of a young woman, seeking an education and independent life, but married by proxy (to a man with syphilis) and bound by the wishes of her family and those around her. One reviewer commented that "AzuahÕs treatment of the African culture is interesting because, like Chimamanda Adichie, she regards her culture as too good and instrumental to be totally jettisoned. It is to the same culture that flings Ofunne to Kaduna that she returns in order to pick another beginning. So, it is not the culture, but the greed of the people in the culture that brings infamy to the culture." (E.A. Sule) 163 pp. ISBN: 1-41373247x.