On the morning a week after Marcelina Ngonadi died, the four stooped sister-friends are pensive, knowing that Henrietta will be the next. As they look upon Marcelina’s gleaming casket with its gold handles and at her jewelry—silver earrings and a necklace, bracelets and rings, a cabochon emerald brooch—they are preoccupied with thoughts of the superficiality […]
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