“Where’d you get all these dramatic stories from?” her mom asked. “Mom, look at how you grew up,” Zelu said, chuckling. Her mother had been raised in a polygamous Yoruba family who lived in a palace. Entitlement, backbiting, history, pride, competition, spirits, ghosts, and ambition were all the norm. Zelu had listened closely to her mother’s many stories about her upbringing and her father’s very different perspective on it and absorbed even more during her own visits.
Mmmhmmm
