The Bead Collector
By: by Sefi Atta
Publisher: AAA Press
Published: 2019
Place of publication: Lagos, Nigeria
Language: eng
Number of pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9789789153626
Subjects: Businesswomen; Fiction; Americans; Collectors and collecting; Beads; Female friendship; Nineteen seventies; Social life and customs; History; Manners and customs
Description: "Lagos, January 1976, six years after the Nigerian Civil War. A new military regime has been in power for six months, but rumors are spreading that a countercoup is imminent. At an art exhibition in the affluent Ikoyi neighborhood, Remi Lawal, a Nigerian woman who runs her own greeting-card shop, meets Frances Cooke, who introduces herself as an American art dealer, in Nigeria to buy rare beads. They become friends and over the next few weeks confide in each other about their aspirations, loyalties, marriage, motherhood--and Nigeria itself, as hospitable Remi welcomes the enigmatic Frances into her world."--Provided by publisher.