Bøker av Katherine Ellis

This is the story of a successful English professor’s ten-year marriage to a much younger Nigerian woodcarver whose motives for marrying her she has chosen not to investigate. It’s her second marriage, and she has determined that singleness is not a state she would willingly choose over being the wife of a charming, good-looking man who has grown up in a small Nigerian village and followed generations of woodcarvers in his family.Married life for the two involves living on two continents—and, Kate Ellis learns, life on her new husband’s side is not monogamous. While the discovery is initially painful, she does not regret the gamble she took in joining her life to his. She comes to believe that what matters is not the fall itself but how one looks back over it.When she does this, she sees an adventure that has left her with a closet full of beautiful Nigerian clothes and a vividly poignant story to tell of the vast differences that underlie an intimacy between cultures that our recent historical and economic globalization has brought into being.

Skeletons Out of Closet is about a middle-class family that dates as far back as the late '50s. Knowing that there was no help from the outside world because things were handled differently in those days, you have the Ponder family. The children lost their mother to situations unknown and only had the love of their beloved grandmother to help them to cope. The grandfather was a wealthy and well-respected member of the town, so things were hidden until the youngest granddaughter became pregnant at the age of ten. There are many plot twists that make this a page-by-page turner. You have murder cover-ups, incest, good times, and sad. Will the family survive once the grandmother becomes ill and past? Will all the children deal with the raft of their grandfather's revenge once he finds out what is really happening in his home?The Ponder family has a never-ending nightmare that rains against this family for many generations to come.