Michael Donkor

?You have to imagine. That?s how I told myself.? ?Imagine what?? ?Imagine that you are the kind of girl that can cope with it, even if you are not.? Belinda knows how to follow the rules. She has learnt the right way to polish water glasses, to wash and fold a hundred handkerchiefs, and to keep a tight lid on memories of the village she left behind when she came to Kumasi to be a housegirl.Mary is still learning the rules. Eleven years old and irrepressible,...