A thirty-five-year-old woman who spent all of her time caring for her invalid mother finds her world spinning off its axis when her mother dies. Haunted by realistic nightmares, she soon realizes someone is pursuing her and she must decide whether to confront the intruder or succumb to melancholy.

"Sarah Obeng, a doctoral student at Columbia, is weeks away from following her married boyfriend to Ohio when her mother suddenly passes away. Her inheritance? King of Glory, a small Christian bookstore serving the Ghanaian immigrant community in the Bronx. Tasked with arranging her mother's funeral according to her family's traditional expectations, Sarah simultaneously navigates her plans to relocate and the return of her estranged father, all while...