You cannot shame a person who says the shameful thing out loud, with her bare head and her honest voice, and then tells you why it was actually the most human thing she ever did.

Obadiah had handed the press a scandal.

Ifeoma handed the press a love story — an electrician who answered a wrong number, a dying woman no one else would sit with — and the press, and the public, and eventually the shareholders, took the love story every time.

She had understood that shame only has power over people who agree to feel it, and she declined to agree.

Chapter 18 — Not for Money

Emeka stepped to the microphone beside her.