The Woman Who Stayed
"Writers write."
She told Yetunde what the second book was. The particular shape of it — the after, the remaining, the continuing of the becoming.
Yetunde listened with the quality of attention she brought to things she was interested in.
When Adaeze finished there was a pause.
"It's better than the first one," Yetunde said.
Adaeze looked at the pages on the screen.
"You haven't read it," she said.
"I don't need to," Yetunde said. "The first book was about surviving something. The second book is about what you do with yourself after the surviving. The second book is what the first book was building toward without knowing it. That's always the better book."