Beschreibung:
Nwanganga Shields grew up in Nigeria and currently lives in Bethesda, Maryland. She studies at the University of St. Andrews and American University in Washington, DC. She is a retiree of the World Bank. The Reading of the Will is her third novel.
Arochukwu people of Eastern Nigeria believe that death is not the end of life But a slight suspension since the individual will return in the next generation either because the individual will return again in the next generation either to re-live his past lifer to live a better life than the previous one. This story is about one such return. Achi, a house slave at the beginning of the 20th century who died in the 1950s returns in the form of his American born grandson Clint.