Lagos, January 1976, six years after the Nigerian Civil War. At an art exhibition in the affluent Ikoyi neighborhood, Remi Lawal, a Nigerian woman who runs her own greeting-card shop, meets Frances Cooke, who introduces herself as an American art dealer, in Nigeria to buy rare beads. They become friends and over the next few weeks confide in each other. But Remi's husband suspects that Frances is spying for the CIA ... For fans of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.