Highlife

Eighteen months after burying her husband, Joy Asante receives two pieces of news in one February morning: her Lewisham council house is scheduled for demolition, and the sister she hasn't spoken to in twenty-seven years is lying in an Accra hospital, asking for her. Nine months to empty a home that holds thirty-four years of marriage. Three grown children with troubles of their own. And in a box of old reel-to-reel tapes, a voice she thought she'd never hear again.