Reading the Ceiling

by Dayo Forster

A decision whe makes on her eighteenth birthday will affect the course of Ayodele's life. How will she choose?

One path will send Ayodele to Europe, to university and to the pain of first love. Another will have her travel the globe after suffering an immeasurable loss. Yet another will keep her in Africa, a mother and wife in a polygamous marriage. In each of Ayodele’s possible futures, we see how the interplay of choice and fate determines the shape of our lives. What part of us would be different if we had made other decisions? And what part of us would stay the same?

Reading the Ceiling is a remarkable novel: fresh, funny and wholly authentic, it paints a compelling portrait of the modern African experience for women, and introduces a stunning new voice to contemporary fiction.

(From Publisher).

Dayo Forster was born in the Gambia and now lives in Kenya. Reading the Ceiling is her first novel.

Authentic depiction of Gambian life as experienced by young people from the eighties.