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|CHANGES|

AMA ATA AIDOO

In Changes, Aidoo portrays the conflicts between professional women whose lives have changed drastically and men whose lives and cultural assumptions remain unchanged. Married and with a daughter, Ési chooses divorce and a life focused on work. When she falls in love with an attractive man—married, wealthy, and able to arrange a polygamous marriage—the modern woman finds herself facing a new set of problems. 

Witty and fast-paced, Changes never missies an opportunity for social satire. It is a powerful novel that explores the complex web of late 20th-century human relationships in ways that are both comic and deeply affecting.