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QUESTION THE FOREIGN OBJECT W  \nall your fingers.  \nIf you were to draw a straight line down from the right corner of your lip, then another straight line forward from the corner of your jaw, the pimple would be sitting at that intersection. Your index fingernail—false, acrylic, painted a burnt orange—flicks atthe tiny bump. You press the pad of your thumb down on it, hard. The pimple does not go away. You have just turned twenty-six, why now?  \nTonight, your mother calls you Agnes for the first time.  \nAgnes is not your name.  \nYou are sitting at the dining table, picking beans, picking at this pimple. You like to sort beans on the wide surface of the mahogany table that’s older than you, sliding weevils and broken beans to a corner, making a route through the good beans so that you never have to lift them up. You think of the bad beans and weevils as lepers, driven out of the colony to live amongst themselves in disease and brokenness forever. When aweevil starts to creep back to the good beans, you stab at it. You love to feel them die. The crunch, then the give, under the force of your finger. Flick the dead off, stab again. Your mother must have been standing there awhile because when you look up, there she is, frozen, gripping her Bible and hymn book bag to the gold buttons of her nineties suit. The illumination from the hallway bulb envelops her so that her edges are blurred. Half of her face eaten by light.  \n“Agnes?”  \n“Hmmn?” you ask.“Who’s that?” But your mother only shakes her head, retreating.“Who is Agnes?” you ask your father later that night. He is eating while watching a  \nnews report on the South Sudan civil war. Since the start of the conflict, almost two million people have been internally displaced    \nYou sit at the foot of his armchair, pulling hairs from your arm in the glow of the television screen. Agnes is your mother ’s mother, your father tells you.“She died when your mum was young, ṣ ’oo mọ ni?” He questions your ignorance as he makes vile noises with his tongue and teeth in an attempt to dislodge beef. But what do Nigerian parents tell their children about their own parents? Especially the Pentecostal Christians? Nothing. If you took a poll of your friends, three out of five would be similarly ignorant of these histories of parents who moved from somewhere to Lagos, left behind religions and curses and distant cousins and grimy pasts.  \nYou ask your father if he wants more beans and beef, your hand back on that pimple. He shakes his head no. Your father hates that you take the weevils out of the beans; he thinks they add a certain flavor to the dish.  \n◊ ◊ ◊  \nTHE SECOND TIME your mother calls you Agnes, your little family of three is sitting in relative darkness. Electricity is out again and fuel scarcity means that you only see eachother in candlelight until the power is restored. Your father snores in the gray-turnedbrown armchair you call “Daddy’s chair,” while you and your mother sit across from each other at the dining table. You pull the empty Milo tin that the candle is mounted on closer to yourself. Wax sloshes off slowly and trickles down a side. You close your left eye, then the right, then the left again, enjoying the way the flame shifts. You draw the candle even closer, sniffing at the flame.  \nYour mother ’s face lifts from her phone screen and watches you. Through your left eye, you see her eyes widen. Through your right eye, you see her mouth open. Through both eyes, you see terror spread over her face, the way it does when a flying cockroach is in the vicinity.  \n“Agn","cbCailGxlxvOWmjQ","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCailGxlxvOWmjQ","pdf",5487975,157,"English","# Contents\n## Manifest\n## Breast milk\n## Contributions\n## The Hollow\n## Imagine Me Carrying You\n## 24 , Alhaji Williams Street\n## Things Boys Do\n## Birdwoman\n## Girlie\n## The Wonders of the World\n## The Dusk Market\n## Masquerade Season\n## Acknowledgments","[{\"question\":\"Why does the mother start calling the narrator “Agnes”?\",\"answer\":\"The text shows her mother calling her “Agnes” for the first time during a domestic moment, and the narrator insists that Agnes is not her name. 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