A gripping coming-of-age story featuring an eight-year-old Ghanaian girl, Ekua, whose parents have gone to live in America. After living with an abusive guardian for several years, Ekua is sent to boarding school. The year is 1978 - a time of extreme political instability in Ghana. Readers follow Ekua as she experiences friendship and grapples with colour consciousness, tribalism, death and much more in her eventful first year of school.
