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.