Kemi Durosinmi

New York in the 1920s. Max Perkins, a literary editor is the first to sign such subsequent literary greats as Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald. When a sprawling, chaotic 1,000-page manuscript by an unknown writer falls into his hands, Perkins is convinced he has discovered a literary genius.

Follows single mother Yejide as she prepares for her daughter's rite of passage into womanhood. The burdens of tradition and duty bring Yejide's maternal instincts into conflict.