In Zikoko life's Siraam, Uzoamaka Power finds comedy in the distance between what we know about love and what desire persuades us to believe. It is a truth universally acknowledged that a young woman in possession of a romantic imagination must be in want of a man who will disappoint her. Austen had the advantage of writing fiction about women and men in the Regency era before the invention of the situationship, that modern arrangement in which two people may behave as though
