Name: Changes
ISBN: 9781558619142

Ama Ata Aidoo

Esi decides to divorce after enduring yet another morning's marital rape. Though her friends and family remain baffled by her decision (after all, he doesn't beat her!), Esi holds fast. When she falls in love with a married manwealthy, and able to arrange a polygamous marriagethe modern woman finds herself trapped in a new set of problems. Witty and compelling, Aidoo's novel, "inaugurates a new realist style in African literature."

A Love Story

Changes

Esi, a divorced professional woman in Ghana, falls in love with an attractive married man, but is uncertain she wants to make the changes necessary for a relationship

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           4.5/5 
I sped through this book in a couple of hours because its just that good!!!!

"Later, when she was much much grown, Ogyaanowa was to ask herself what she would have preferred if she had been consulted:
 staying in their room and watching her parents fight; or sitting outside at the dining table, pretending to eat porridge and hearing them quarrel."

".It is beginning to look as if the nicest husband is always the one someone else is living with, no?’"

"Oko loved you and wanted your marriage to work.’On his terms.’
‘It had to be on someone’s terms.’‘Why not on mine?’"

"‘Fusena?’
‘Hmm … hmm?’
‘Would you be shocked if I asked you to marry me?’
‘Yes … But I would also say yes.’"

"Esi was thinking that the whole thing sounded so absolutely lunatic and so ‘contemporary African’ that she would save her sanity probably by not trying to understand it."

"‘Opokuya, monogamy is so stifling.’ Esi said this almost desperately and uncannily, as though she was answering Opokuya’ s thoughts.
‘I suspect you mean marriage,’ Opokuya shot back in parting."


"She was wondering how any one person could be so lucky. And in any case, where was her luck? What was it she had got out of life and out of marriage? Answer: a very faithful husband. Four fine children. Endless drudgery at work. And the state, who was her employer, paying salaries so low you were convinced the aim was to get people like her to resign and go to work for doctors in private practice. Now look at her, and look at Esi …"

"So what fashion of loving was she ever going to consider adequate? She comforted herself that maybe her bone-blood-flesh self, not her unseen soul, would get answers to some of the big questions she was asking of life."

Changes A Love Story

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