Review: How Life was lived by women in other countries is truly interesting
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 07 10, 2014
It was quite interesting to read how, just as I was growing up here in the US, women in another country were living. Although Women's Lib did not start until sometime in the 60's I think it was or maybe even later we had it easy compared to the way women were treated in Cameroon! If you were different, and dared to be different--heaven help you! Yefon was definitely not a conformist--she wanted to learn to read and definitely did not want to marry someone with multiple wives which was the norm. The only person who understood her, strangely enough, was her father. He was murdered when she was a young teenager. He had given her a gift of a red necklace which she never took off.The only woman in the community who did not want to marry the Prince was Yefon-----of course as luck would have it--guess who he picked. She finds him on their engagement night with her long time arch enemy and manages to escape out of the palace. She is bound and determined to walk to the larger city and begin her own life. Several near catastrophes happen along the way. Just when she thinks she is safe--the driver who she thought would help her-recognizes who she is and the story ends with him gleefully driving her back to the Prince-------to be continued.And how does the Red Necklace figure into all this? You will have to read the book to find out!