Braithwaite writes in a rat-a-tat style that forces the plot along at a
clip. Short chapters headed “Bleach,” “Body,” “Scrubs,” “Heat,”
“Questions” follow one another in a taut rhythm like that of a drumbeat.
A lazier writer would have left it at that. But Braithwaite’s tale
takes a darker turn when Ayoola tips her cap at the very man Korede
herself is secretly in love with, the warmhearted Dr. Tade Otumu, who
keeps a bowl of candy on his desk for his child patients and sings a
lullaby to an inconsolable toddler recoiling from being given an
injection. “Is there anything more beautiful than a man with a voice
like an ocean?” Korede asks herself. The little girl “waddles towards
him. When
she is older, she will remember him as her first love.”
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