Summary

Chapter 1

The main character, Sepha, is waiting for his two friends, Ken and Joe, to come by his store for drinks. All three have been friends for 17 years. Each is an immigrant to America (Washington DC) from a different part of Africa. Joe is from the Congo, Ken is from Kenya, and Sepha is from Ethiopia. Since arriving in America, Ken has become a very successful engineer, and Joe works as a waiter at a high class restaurant. Sepha owns his own store, which he wishes to turn into a deli and eventually a restaurant, but recently he’s been having trouble just finding the motivation to open the store at all, blaming it on something that happened with his friend, Judith. Ken tries to motivate him and make him realize there’s a problem, but Sepha just doesn’t seem to care...