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houseboy [ˈhaʊsˌbɔɪ] n
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Mostly, though, we learn of the war, the colonial history of its origins, and the national politics that fueled it, through the lives of Adichie's characters: Olanna, selfless, educated, wealthy, and fresh back home from London; Odenigbo, her idealist academic "revolutionary lover"; their houseboy (servant) Ugwu; Olanna's hard-as-nails twin sister Kainene, and her insecure white British lover. Presented from the point of view of eight-year-old Henry Travis and Chinese immigrant Chin, son of the Travises' houseboy, events move quickly from the April evening preceding the quake through the early morning rumble and collapsing buildings, the three days and nights of tire and chaos, and the beginning of resettlement. Even when she was a simple country girl singing and playing guitar with Porter Wagoner, she looked vaguely like a Fire Island houseboy with a stuffed bra. |
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