When they were kids, All Over the Place was the cassette her sister used to play again and again on the pink jam box they shared: I’m going down to Liverpool to do nothing. All the days of my life . . . However, Flannery’s move to Austin was not turning out like Molly had hoped. As she complained to Brandon one night during the Dumpster Divers reality television show they were addicted to watching before bed, Flannery was being distant and weird. Supposedly spending all her time with friends from grad school. Refusing Molly’s offer of the irises—as though everyone didn’t already know she was going to stay. As though, even if she did end up with Kunle, they wouldn’t ultimately prefer to live here. Molly tried to be a good sport. You still might move back to Nigeria? For good? Really? Flannery liked to remind her that she had already lived there for five years, but Molly still had a hard time processing this fact. Flannery’s life in West Africa may have seemed to last years to Flannery, but for Molly it had passed by overnight.
