Our Sister Killjoy

'Ver do you come from?' she asked Sissie. 'Ghana.' 'Is that near Canada?'Sissie is leaving Ghana for the first time. Arriving in Europe on a scholarship to experience the glories of a Western education, she plunges into this new continent's heart of whiteness, observing the strange customs of the natives. Drinking cocktails at the German Embassy, she cringes at her countrymen.

In a Bavarian castle, she is seduced by the lonely mother of Little Adolf. In freezing London, she witnesses 'been-tos' sharing myths of an overseas idyll. In between continents, she writes a letter on the plane to her exiled former lover. But it is not sent. She will tell these tales back at home.