Nothing in life is as valuable as our health. So when Caroline sister notices a suspicious mole (or spot, since it changed) on Claire before heading to the beach, she encourages her to get it checked out. Worried, she books the first appointment she can get. She gets the shock of her life in the exa
Mr. and Mrs. Doctor
β Scribed by Iromuanya, Julie
- Book ID
- 109070503
- Publisher
- Coffee House Press
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 455 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781566893985
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
Ifi and Job, a Nigerian couple in an arranged marriage, begin their lives together in Nebraska with a single, outrageous lie: that Job is a doctor, not a college dropout. Unwittingly, Ifi becomes his co-conspirator--that is until his first wife, Cheryl, whom he married for a green card years ago, reenters the picture and upsets Job's tenuous balancing act.
Julie Iromuanya has short stories and novel excerpts appearing or forthcoming in the Kenyon Review , Passages North , the Cream City Review , and the Tampa Review , among other journals. She is a finalist for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction. Mr. and Mrs. Doctor is her first novel.
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