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Chaos was the law of Nature; Order was the dream of man. ~Henry Adams When you've spent your entire life believing every choice your parents make for you is the right one, breaking out of their control might be harder than anticipated. Tricia Diabene is a perfectionist who wants nothing but to make her parents proud of her. She goes the extra-mile to achieve perfect grades and perfection in literally everything she does. She believes it is the only way to match up to her high-standard parents and impress them. What happens when she discovers that her aims and her parents' are completely different? Does Tricia turn her back on her family, or buries her desires in order to keep being their trophy child? Finding out your father cheated on your mother is a hard pill to swallow. Being uprooted from your home in London to an unfamiliar life in Accra would turn any good-natured teenage boy spiteful and a little rebellious. But having to put up with a manipulative arsehole stepbrother? That's where David Ampofo draws the line. David can't stand Adam for the life of him, either at school or at home. He prefers pretending his stepbrother doesn't exist, for the most part. Living at home is practically a prison sentence, and he finds joy in watching Formula One races, playing with microelectronics kits -and winning over his crush, Tricia Diabene. As Tricia's life slowly unravels when she's faced with life altering decisions, David is forced to confront the fact that you can't live with a hate-filled heart forever. When personas crack and paradigms are shifted with crushing hard-truths, will they be enough continue to be enough for each other? Or will they find what lies beneath the surface too repulsive and overwhelming to continue together?
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