"Gladys is not a small woman, but her clothes are. Her lipstick is red and her eyelids are green, and the pencil-lines above them look like black birds flying on the horizon. Behind her back, my husband calls her Miss Piggy. But I think her outrageousness is an act to get on in life, just like his cynicism. Besides, she is my only sister. And she has money." Wanjeri and her unemployed husband, Murage, live in the small, corrupt town of Naivasha in reduced circumstances incommensurate with their education and previous professional positions. Naivasha is halfway between Nairobi, where Wanjeri yearns to be, and Dundori where her unemployed husband wants to be. Their physical location mirrors their emotional dislocation. Neither are satisfied with the compromise they are making. The financial burden falls on Wanjeri, and they both resent relying on her older sister, Gladys, who leads the life of a material girl as the kept woman of an older white man. The story explores this sibling relationship and Wanjeri and Murage's troubled marriage. "...Rich texture, complex characters and enough idiosyncratic material to keep me glued to the pages." Nat Grinberg, USA.