A Vintage Shorts &ldquo;Short Story Month&rdquo; Selection<br>  <br> Mrs. Emenike resents that her husband drives a Mercedes while she is relegated the &ldquo;noisy Fiat,&rdquo; and she loathes the words &ldquo;free primary education,&rdquo; a new government initiative for which three of her servants have abandoned her. But, when the program is recalled, ten-year-old Vero, whose hopes of going to school have been dashed, is Mrs. Emenike's next willing recruit&mdash;young, innocent, and desperate to do anything and everything she must to earn an education. <br>  <br> In this masterful story by &ldquo;the father of Nigerian writing,&rdquo; Chinua Achebe portrays the devastating injustice done to young women by government corruption and wealth inequality. Selected from Achebe's much-lauded collection of short fiction, <i>Girls at War</i>.<br>  <br> An ebook short.