ABOUT
THE BOOK

One path will send Ayodele to Europe, to university and to the pain of first love. Another will have her travel the globe after suffering an immeasurable loss. Yet another will keep her in Africa, a mother and wife in a polygamous marriage. In each of Ayodele’s possible futures, we see how the interplay of choice and fate determines the shape of our lives. What part of us would be different if we had made other decisions? And what part of us would stay the same?

Reading the Ceiling is a remarkable novel: fresh, funny and wholly authentic, it paints a compelling portrait of the modern African experience for women, and introduces a stunning new voice to contemporary fiction.