Chapter 27

I soon picked The Family by Mario Puzo and Carol Gino. I was handing the novel to the shopkeeper, who was already with a calculator, when I saw it. It was a dark, hardcover book with pink and dark designs. I smiled broadly and extracted it from the shelf with both hands.

The more I stared at the caption of the book, the more I thought of A. J. Baby.

“The Art of Seduction by Robert Greene,” I whispered as I handed the book to the shopkeeper absent-mindedly.

“I’ll give you four thousand nairas for the 2009 Guinness Book of World Records, one thousand seven hundred nairas for the novel, and two thousand nairas for The Art of Seduction.” 

We haggled for a while, and I turned to leave the shop and the shopkeeper, so he could keep his books to himself. I stepped out of the bookshop and walked two steps from the entrance when he rushed to