The Lady in White: A Memoir from Beyond

By Okwudili Iloka

FORTY-FIVE MINUTES WITH A STRANGER

She sat at the far end of the bench in a white dress scattered with butterflies.
They talked for forty-five minutes. Music, politics, God. She laughed with her head thrown back.
When his bus was called, she gave him her number and a folded slip of paper whose meaning he would only understand later.

He called the number the next morning. Nothing has made sense since.
What Jane needed him to hear was not about the day they met. It was about the life that came before: a childhood placed in the wrong hands, truths no one wanted to hear, and a family who believed a pastor over their own daughter.

She had already chosen who would hear it.
Some stories are told so that the next child is believed.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9786015657
• ISBN13: 9789786015651
• Release Date: March 2024
• Publisher: Aquqo
• Length: 154 Pages
• Weight: 0.37 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"