This book is a about a traditional young ibo girl named Aku-nna living in Nigeria. Her family is very traditional so she follows all rituals and beliefs. Unfortuanetly this young girl faced the tragedy of losing her father who is the head of the family at a young age. She was very close with him and thsi was a traumatizing experience for her because she was forced to move out of the town she has lived in her whole life to live with her cousins. Her mother is forced to marry her uncle because it is a tradition that the eldest brother is allowed to take his deceased brother's wife and family as his own. He doesn't really love them all we wants is Aku-nna's brideprice. It doesn't matter about love to a lot of people a lot of men all they care about is the man with largest offer for their daughter's brideprice. Aku-nna finds true love with Chike but he is of slave descendants so her uncle will not allow the marriage. So they elope and there is a superstition in their culture that claims if your husband does not pay the brideprice you will die in child labor and sadly this is what happens. This book was so sad but a very interesting book I liked it.