While Nani is the main character, Udodi’s tragic death provides the inciting incident; and because she recognizes this, she waits in a pseudo-narrative halfway house for Nani to grow strong enough to leave Ephraim. It is no accident that Unigwe bookends her narrative with Udodi’s chorus; Udodi essentially “creates” and resolves the conflict. At the end, she speaks in coherent sentences whereas previously her language was lyrical, blending different languages with her unmethodical insights that do not adhere to rules of grammar and syntax. The shift in language, structure, and style suggests Udodi’s chaotic situation, this in-between space she finds herself in, as well as an evolution of character. She must see her story and Nani’s story through to the end.