← Back to discovery

Reading the ceiling

Dayo Forster

2007275 pagesabout 4–6 hours
2007
first published
  • 2007Pocket Books · 275 pages · ENGISBN 9781416527640
  • 2007Simon & Schuster · 275 pages · ENGISBN 9780743295710

It is Ayodele's eighteenth birthday in her native Gambia - it is the day she has decided to lose her virginity. She's drawn up a short list: Reuben, the failsafe; Yuan a long-admired school friend; Frederick Adams, the 42-year-old, soon-to-be-pot-bellied father of her best friend. Ayodele's life will tread a different path according to this night's decision; but how can she know which one to choose?

How do you feel?