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The story of three once-inseparable college friends in Nigeria who reunite in Lagos for the first time in thirty years - a sparkling debut novel about mothers and daughters, culture and class, sex and love, and the extraordinary resilience of female friendship. "The bonds between women - as friends, and across the generations - are the jewels that make this story shine." - Tayari Jones, author of An American MarriageFunmi, Enitan, and Zainab first meet at university in Nigeria and become friends for life despite their differences. Funmi is beautiful, brash, and determined; Enitan is homely and eager, seeking escape from her single mother's smothering and needy love; Zainab is elegant and reserved, raised by her father's first two wives after her mother's death in childbirth.