Beneath the Cover – Peggy Oppong

In _A Private Experience,? a medical student hides from a violent riot with a poor Muslim woman whose dignity and faith force her to confront the realities and fears she?s been pushing away. In _Tomorrow is Too Far,? a woman unlocks the devastating secret that surrounds her brother?s death. The young mother at the center of _Imitation? finds her comfortable life in Philadelphia threatened when she learns that her husband has moved his mistress into their Lagos home. And the title story depicts the choking loneliness of a Nigerian girl who moves to an America that turns out to be nothing like the country she expected; though falling in love brings her desires nearly within reach, a death in her homeland forces her to reexamine them.