My name is Iheoma. I am the third girl of my mother and her last born. My mother is the third wife of my father, Papa Uche. Brother Uche is the only male child in our family and my mother's first born, which was why my mother had the status of the favourite wife in the house. Altogether, my father had twelve children in the house and three wives. To be clear, we were fourteen females and two males in the house, meaning overplenty of drama every day in Ukunu! Unusual it was but my brother was not spoilt like other only sons. It seemed like God had given him a special nature that our parents could not influence, a brain like computer and a tall physique that farmwork had buffed well. If our mother favoured him with a juicy and thick piece of meat, Brother Uche would manage to cut small for me without our mother seeing him. My mother said that the day she gave birth to me, the labour pangs caught her unexpectedly while at the farm. Uche was the only one there to help her because ...