‘You didn’t even eat the yam Mama boiled.’ ‘We boil our yam with butter.’ ‘We boil our yam with boh-tah. Look at your mouth. When they send you back to the village, what will you do? Where will you find boh-tah to use to boil your yam?’ ‘They won’t send me back to the village.’ She looked at him from the corners of her eyes, up and down. ‘You have forgotten where you come from, and now you have become so foolish you think you are a Big Man.’
