Romantic comedy : a novel
Curtis Sittenfeld
Treasure & her mother lost everything when Treasure's daddy died. Haggling for scraps in the market, Treasure meets a spirit who promises to bring her father back but she has to do something for him first. Ozoemena has an itch in the middle of her back that can't be scratched. An itch that speaks to her patrilineal destiny, to defend her people by becoming a leopard. In a world that always says 'no' to women, what must two young girls sacrifice to get what is theirs?