The second (and very pregnant) wife, Khadija, shows Adunni kindness and acts as a motherly figure. Labake, the first wife, is cruel and antagonizes Adunni whenever she can. She moves out of her family’s compound and into Morufu’s house, where she must live with her new husband and his other wives. Regardless of Adunni’s hesitations, the marriage proceeds, and Adunni becomes Morufu’s third bride. Leaving her family’s compound to marry Morufu also means that she’ll have to abandon her brother Kayus, with whom she is very close. The news shocks Adunni-her biggest dream in life is to get an education and become a teacher, and she knows that the marriage will put her dream further out of reach. Adunni’s family has fallen on hard times since Mama’s death, and Morufu has agreed to pay the family’s rent money and provide them with food in exchange for Adunni’s hand in marriage. One day, Papa informs her that he has arranged for her to be sold as a wife to a much older man, Morufu. Adunni is a teenage girl living in in Ikati, a small, rural village in Nigeria.
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