Summary

Chapter 31

This chapter focuses on Olanna. Since Ugwu's capture she despairs that one of the many bodies she sees by the side of the road will be his. Mrs. Muokelu hints to Olanna that she should be prepared to leave Umuahia quickly, that she's heard rumors that aren't good. Mama Oji has warnings of her own as she tells Olanna that when she leaves that Alice sits with her husband. Olanna discounts it at first, but then when she sees Alice she feels jealous. She goes to the gas station but they are out of petrol. She tells Odenigbo that she heard that they should keep the car gassed up, and they need to get gas on the black market. He is too drunk to care.

She takes the money that her mother has been sending her and gets gasoline from...