Reading the ceiling by Dayo Forster

On her eighteenth birthday a Gambian girl chooses a man — and the novel follows three radically different lives she might have lived depending on which man she picked. Ayodele has a shortlist of three men for the night she's decided to lose her virginity. What she can't know is that her choice will send her life in entirely different directions: one path to university in England with heartache abroad, one to an epic journey across continents at the cost of an almost unbearable loss, and one to marriage in a polygamous household in The Gambia. Forster tells all three with equal commitment and craft, building a meditation on how much of a woman's life is shaped by factors she can barely perceive, let alone control. Shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and chosen by the New York Times as one of its '52 Books for 52 Places.'

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