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Copyright fuels creativity, encourages diverse voices, promotes free speech, and creates a vibrant culture. Thank you for buying an authorized edition of this book and for complying with copyright laws by not reproducing, scanning, or distributing any part of it in any form without permission. You are supporting writers and allowing Penguin to continue  \nto publish books for every reader.  \nLIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA AVAILABLE  \nISBN: 978-1-59420-398-5  \n978-0-73522-247-2 (international edition)  \n978-0-39956-431-4 (e-book)  \nThis is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, businesses, companies, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.  \nVersion_ 1  \nContents  \nTitle Page  \nCopyright  \nDedication  \nEpigraph  \nPrologue  \nPART ONE: Early Days  \nOne  \nTwo  \nThree  \nFour  \nFive  \nSix  \nSeven  \nEight  \nNine  \nTen  \nEleven  \nTwelve  \nThirteen  \nFourteen  \nPART TWO: Early and Late  \nOne  \nTwo  \nThree  \nFour  \nFive  \nSix  \nSeven  \nPART THREE: Intermission  \nOne  \nTwo  \nThree  \nFour  \nPART FOUR: Middle Passage One  \nTwo  \nThree  \nFour  \nFive  \nSix  \nSeven  \nEight  \nNine  \nTen  \nEleven  \nTwelve  \nPART FIVE: Night and Day  \nOne  \nTwo  \nThree  \nFour  \nFive  \nSix  \nPART SIX: Day and Night  \nOne  \nTwo  \nThree  \nFour  \nFive  \nSix  \nSeven  \nPART SEVEN: Late Days  \nOne  \nTwo  \nThree  \nFour  \nFive  \nSix  \nSeven  \nEight  \nNine  \nTen  \nEleven  \nEpilogue  \nAcknowledgments  \nFor my mother, Yvonne  \nWhen the music changes, so does the dance.  \n‒ Hausa proverb  \nPrologue  \nIt was the first day of my humiliation. Put on a plane, sent back home, to England, set up with a temporary rental in St. John’s Wood. The flat was on the eighth floor, the windows looked over the cricket ground. It had been chosen, I think, because of the doorman, who blocked all inquiries. I stayed indoors. The phone on the kitchen wall rang and rang, but I was warned not to answer it and to keep my own phone switched off . I watched the cricket being played, a game I don’t understand, it offered no real distraction, but still it was better than looking at the interior of that apartment, a luxury condo, in which everything had been designed to be perfectly neutral, with all significant corners rounded, like an iPhone. When the cricket finished I stared at the sleek coffee machine embedded in the wall, and at two photos of the Buddha—one a brass Buddha, the other wood—and at a photo of an elephant kneeling next to a little Indian boy, who was also kneeling. 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