#774 Story, Story!- Chinelo Okparanta
A new woman is seen on Sunday coming to the small church on Rumuola road. Nneoma sees that she is pregnant and is happy to welcome her to the congregation. She begins telling her a story. It’s a story she told to another four years ago, also pregnant. She tells this story as the pastor is giving his sermon. By the end, she is in tears and the woman invites her to dinner. That was the outcome she had hoped. The horror of her plan comes clear by the end, even she is not sure whether she will go through with it, again.
Four stories in this collection, Happiness, like Water, and I haven’t felt any real connection with them yet. They’re fine stories, just not evoking the emotions that I can see are there.
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