“Sometimes I doubt the gods even exist. Everyone talks of them so easily—Afua herself can commune with them—but I pray and I pray and I pray and I feel . . . nothing. What if that’s why all these bad things keep happening to me and everyone I love, because they know deep in my heart I don’t believe?” “Then you are either far more powerful than we realized, or the gods are far weaker than we think, that a single girl’s crisis of faith could wreak this much havoc on us all.”
