{"product_id":"during-a-dry-season-paperback","title":"During a Dry Season - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003ePortia Tewogbade\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDuring a Dry Season weaves the vivid sights and sounds of urban Nigeria into a complicated story of a poor Brooklyn girl's life in her wealthy husband's country. When her troublesome mother-in-law arrives on the first winds of Nigeria's dry season, Garnett Adewale's hopes for happiness are blown away. In a culture that demands respect for elders, she is powerless against the old woman, who hates her because she is an American with a womb that is \"as barren as a brick.\" Blindly in love, Garnett tolerates her husband's infidelity and tries to cope with his beautiful but bewildering country. It all begins to collapse when her mother-in-law goads her into telling a desperate lie. The events that follow soon bring this story of love, betrayal, corruption, and cultural conflict to a violent end.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003ePortia Tewogbade is an award-winning author, who taught English for several years at Georgia Tech and Nigeria's Federal Government College in Kaduna. Her short stories have appeared in African Voices, Mobius: The Journal of Social Change, and the Hawaii Pacific Review, among other publications. She is writing a second novel near her hometown of Atlanta, Georgia\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 254\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.58 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 03, 2013\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42168372428935,"sku":"9781491094181","price":13.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/a65f354658e2ce302be200da8392f3ca.webp?v=1733334935","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/during-a-dry-season-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}