<div><p>Ifi and Job, a Nigerian couple in an arranged marriage, begin their lives together in Nebraska with a single, outrageous lie: that Job is a doctor, not a college dropout. Unwittingly, Ifi becomes his co-conspirator—that is until his first wife, Cheryl, whom he married for a green card years ago, reenters the picture and upsets Job's tenuous balancing act.</p><p><b>Julie Iromuanya</b> has short stories and novel excerpts appearing or forthcoming in the<i>Kenyon Review</i>, <i>Passages North</i>, the <i>Cream City Review</i>, and the<i>Tampa Review</i>, among other journals. <i>Mr. and Mrs. Doctor</i> is her first novel.</p></div>