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Ten years ago, Ron and his then-girlfriend, Jill, did the impossible. They bought condemned property - a big Baltimore Victorian brownstone - and vowed to bring it back to its original glory. Friends, family, and concerned onlookers told them not to do it they would surely lose their shirts and their love in the bargain. But Jill wanted the house and Ron wanted Jill. So Ron bought the house.

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Chinua Achebe meets Graham Greene in this satirical and heartrending novel about the damage wrought by American imperialism.