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Laura (booksnob)
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Peggy is a secretary in Washington D.C. and at four in the morning, one lonesome night, she receives a phone call, that the spirits have chosen her to be King. King of a small ocean-side fishing village in Ghana. King Peggy takes that vocation and chronicles her life's most significant journey within the pages of this book.

Peggy is to be King of Otuam which is where her family is from and where she grew up. She arrives in Otuam to find it full of problems like no running water, no hospital or d
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