Promises

From the award winning author of Waiting... Promises are like tilapia from Lake Victoria – glittering, evasive… slippery. Ajuna and Kagaba have scraped, begged, and borrowed money from friends and family to afford one airplane ticket and papers to travel to London. Educated in economics but unable to find work in his home country of Uganda, Kagaba plans to live in the United Kingdom at the behest of a relative by marriage who has promised to find him a good job, and quickly. As Kagaba rushes to meet his flight out of Kampala, Ajuna, feeling sick, is warned by her sister-in-law to get checked out for malaria.  With her husband now ensconced on the other side of the planet, Ajuna collapses and is rushed to the hospital only to discover life altering circumstances. Worried that the tenuous ties that keep them married will unravel during a separation that spans continents, Ajuna turns to friends and family for support. As her loneliness grows, the lines between help and something more begi