In her debut novel Julie Iromuanya presents Ifi and Job, a Nigerian couple in an arranged marriage, who 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. The story is charming; it is funny, yet sad as these African immigrants seek to carve out a life for themselves in unfamiliar surroundings. They, along with the reader, learn that people everywhere are not so very different when it gets down to it. 288 pages
