Adichie delivers a searing, never dry, history lesson packaged into a strong and deeply effecting, even sensuous, story seen primarily through the eyes of the wealthy and well connected twin sisters Olanna and Kainene, and the particularly compelling character of Ugwu, the 13 - year - old
peasant houseboy of a radical university professor.
If that means every Bolivian
peasant has the right to have Michael E Mann as his
houseboy for three months a year, I'm in favor.