And so, I began to realize that my American roommate must have throughout her life seen and heard different versions of this single story, as had a professor, who once told me that my novel was not "authentically African."
Och så började jag inse att min amerikanska rumskamrat måste, genom hela sitt liv, ha sett och hört olika versioner av denna enda berättelse, precis som den professor, som en gång sade till mig att min novell inte var "autentiskt afrikansk".