num_pages: 292
description: Ifi and Job a Nigerian couple in an arranged marriage begin their lives together in Nebraska with a single outrageous lie: that Job is a doctor not a college dropout. Unwittingly Ifi becomes his co-conspiratorthat is until his first wife Cheryl whom he married for a green card years ago reenters the picture and upsets Job's tenuous balancing act.Julie Iromuanya has short stories and novel excerpts appearing or forthcoming in the Kenyon Review Passages North the Cream City Review and the Tampa Review among other journals. She is a finalist for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction. Mr. and Mrs. Doctor is her first novel.
language: None
title: Mr. and Mrs. Doctor
publisher: Coffee House Press