Everyone knows stepmothers are bad, wicked and just plain evil. Buerki Puplampu cannot believe that her widowed father is getting remarried when her mother has not even been dead for long! She just knows that Naadu Nartey is wrong for her father. It isn’t even because Naadu is bigger than a hippo or because she laughs like a cow or has hair on her face and chest like a cavewoman. She just knows.
This story takes place in Ghana and is written by award-winning Ghanaian writer, Ruby Goka. Other books by Ruby Goka are Perfectly Imperfect and Plain Yellow.
A glossary of Ghanaian words is at the end of the story.