Did not really love this one. I was puzzled by why (view spoiler)[Sepha's life seemed to fall apart just as a result of his relationship with Judith and Naomi. It seemed like things had been going okay for him running his store for the last however many years. Then Judith and Naomi came into town, and he stopped caring about the store or paying bills. He and Judith never really even had a relationship, but that became a minor obsession for him, to the point that he let everything else in his life slip away. I just don't understand why he stopped caring about everything else, when he had been (at least moderately) successful at it for so long. (hide spoiler)] 
 Outside of that, the book was well-written, but sad. Sepha, Joseph, and Kenneth all seemed so broken by their past in Africa that they couldn't really completely succeed in the present in America.