The Woman Who Stayed
The book came out on a Thursday.
This too felt appropriate, though she had not chosen the date — Yetunde had chosen it, based on the particular calculations that publishers made about timing and market and the specific window of reception that gave a book the best chance of finding the audience that needed it. Thursday. Not a Tuesday, with all the history that day carried. Not a Monday, which felt too much like a beginning. Thursday — midweek, midstride, the particular day of someone who has been going for a while and has not yet stopped.