It is Sunset on Polygamy in Luoland. A near-fatal crisis pits polygamous Jim and younger wives against the hyperjealous first wife, Felicia the Nyadendi, a master of intrigues, who engineers a home wide mutiny against him. Mutiny ends, and a surge of babies for all but the in-menopause Felicia. Tormented by her condition, Felicia is unable to withstand a childless period in her journey, and suffers a mental breakdown. But she would have the last laugh, thanks to a fatal disease epidemic.
Meanwhile, the New Disease ensnares her people as Gina, virus-infected and very beautiful, unwillingly remarries because of spiritual demands placed upon her by the customs of her people. Deceivingly healthy, she kills suitor-after-suitor, shutting down home-after-home, as the society sleeps and nurses a tragic spiritual (Luo: Chira) explanation for a medically well understood viral-killer. Gina's long life is a tragedy, and so are polygamy, wife-inheritance, and a communal psyche moored on a myriad of taboos.
Sunset on Polygamy (A novel by Joseph R. Alila
http://www.publishamerica.com/books/18178
ISBN 13: 978-1424-1-6684-8
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