Summary

Chapter 35

Ugwu, Olanna, Baby, and Odenigbo return to their old home and find it ransacked. All of Odenigbo's books and research papers have been burned in the back yard.

Ugwu immediately goes to his old village to see if his mother and sister have survived. He finds his father's second wife who tells him that his mother has died from her coughing fits. Ugwu is devastated. Anulika won't look him in the eye, which makes Ugwu wonder about what has happened to her while he was gone. Ugwu's father is alive and pulls his son close for a hug. Later, as he is leaving the village he sees Nnesinachi carrying a baby on her hip. They stop to talk and she tells him that she was safe during the war because she agreed to go with a Hausa soldier. Ugwu asks...