Mr. and Mrs. Doctor

Ifi and Job, a Nigerian couple in an arranged marriage, begin their lives together in Nebraska with a single, outrageous lie: that Job is a doctor, not a college dropout. Unwittingly, Ifi becomes his co-conspirator--that is until his first wife, Cheryl, whom he married for a green card years ago, reenters the picture and upsets Job's tenuous balancing act.

Julie Iromuanya has short stories and novel excerpts appearing or forthcoming in the Kenyon Review, Passages North, the Cream City Review, and the Tampa Review, among other journals. She is a finalist for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction. Mr. and Mrs. Doctor is her first novel.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Coffee House Press
Published: 05/12/2015
ISBN: 9781566893978
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.90d
Award: National Book Critics Circle Award - Finalist
Award: Literary Award - Finalist

Review Citations: Kirkus Reviews 04/15/2015
Publishers Weekly 06/22/2015
New York Times Book Review 09/13/2015 pg. 34