Reading the ceiling
By: Dayo Forster
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 2007
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 275
ISBN-13: 9780743295710
Subjects: Virginity; Fiction; Birthdays; Sex customs; Women; Social conditions
Description: It is Ayodele's eighteenth birthday in her native Gambia - it is the day she has decided to lose her virginity. She's drawn up a short list: Reuben, the failsafe; Yuan a long-admired school friend; Frederick Adams, the 42-year-old, soon-to-be-pot-bellied father of her best friend. Ayodele's life will tread a different path according to this night's decision; but how can she know which one to choose?