![]() ![]() ![]() The Muslim wife in the chilling 'Hailstones on Zamfara'- having been married at 14, excluded from school, and now rendered near-deaf by her drunken husband's beatings-finds a short-lived sense of vindication following her husband taking another wife. He foolishly loses the money and is harshly humbled-to his wife's great satisfaction. Atta's characters are irrepressible, beginning with Makinde in 'The Miracle Worker,' an honest Lagotian mechanic who charges admission to view the vision his born-again Christian wife claims to have seen in a dusty windscreen in his car lot. Atta (Everything Good Will Come) demonstrates a fresh, vital voice in these 11 stories that move fluidly between pampered Nigerian emigres and villagers grinding out a meager subsistence. ![]()
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