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In "On Monday of Last Week," Kamara is Tobechi's young wife. After five years of marriage, during which Kamara stayed in Nigeria while Tobechi drove a taxi in Philadelphia, she was able to join him in the United States. Upon her arrival in the United States, Kamara becomes depressed and disillusioned with her husband. She takes a job as a nanny for Josh at Tobechi's suggestion, and she marvels at the anxiety Neil, Josh's father, feels about being a parent. Being out of her own house and having someone to care for gives her a sense of purpose, and her life gains new meaning when she meets Josh's mysterious artist mother, Tracy. Receiving attention from Tracy makes Kamara want to wear makeup and lose weight, and it begins to pull her out of her depression.
Kamara Quotes in The Thing Around Your Neck
The The Thing Around Your Neck quotes below are all either spoken by Kamara or refer to Kamara. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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On Monday of Last Week
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Kamara wondered where the child's mother was. Perhaps Neil had killed her and stuffed her in a trunk; Kamara had spent the past months watching Court TV and had learned how crazy these Americans were.
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She did not remember his toes with hair. She stared at him as he spoke, his Igbo interspersed with English that had an ungainly American accent... He had not spoken like that on the phone. Or had he, and she had not noticed? Was it simply that seeing him was different and that it was the Tobechi of university that she had expected to find?
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She had taken to closing her eyes while Tobechi was on top of her, willing herself to become pregnant, because if that did not shake her out of her dismay at least it would give her something to care about.
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Kamara Quotes in The Thing Around Your Neck
The The Thing Around Your Neck quotes below are all either spoken by Kamara or refer to Kamara. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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On Monday of Last Week
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Kamara wondered where the child's mother was. Perhaps Neil had killed her and stuffed her in a trunk; Kamara had spent the past months watching Court TV and had learned how crazy these Americans were.
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She did not remember his toes with hair. She stared at him as he spoke, his Igbo interspersed with English that had an ungainly American accent... He had not spoken like that on the phone. Or had he, and she had not noticed? Was it simply that seeing him was different and that it was the Tobechi of university that she had expected to find?
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She had taken to closing her eyes while Tobechi was on top of her, willing herself to become pregnant, because if that did not shake her out of her dismay at least it would give her something to care about.
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