Title: Reading the ceiling
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?
Subjects: Virginity, Women, Social conditions, Birthdays, Sex customs, Fiction
Places: Gambia