Summary

The omniscient narrator tells the story of Furo Wariboko’s first day as a white man on pages 1 - 46. At the beginning of the novel, Furo woke up on the morning of a job interview, and immediately noticed that his skin color had changed. Furo used to be a poor, black, Nigerian man. He never had any success with jobs, and lived with his parents until age 33. While trying to make sense of his transformation from a black Nigerian man into a white man with red hair, his mother knocked on his bedroom door to check on him. Furo managed to avoid exposure, and plotted his escape from the house. He had no money, and he could not ask his family for any without the risk of being seen. Furo snuck out of his house only to realize that he had forgotten his...