Dele weds destiny by Tomi obaro

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.

Funmi, 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. Their friendship is complicated but enduring, and

over the course of the novel, the reader learns about their

loves and losses. How Funmi stole Zainab's boyfriend and

became pregnant, only to have an abortion and lose the

boyfriend to police violence. How Enitan was seduced by an

American Peace Corps volunteer, the only one who ever

really saw her, but is culturally so different from him--a

Connecticut WASP-that raising their daughter together put

them at odds. How Zainab fell in love with her teacher, a

friend of her father's, and ruptured her relationship with her

father to have him.