Onyesonwu undergoes female circumcision at eleven in an attempt to become normal and accepted by the community against her parents wish giving her biological father the chance to haunt her. Onye meets a blacksmith named Fadil Ogundimu who treats her well, and eventually marries her mother. She doesn't fit with the town people and is often ostracized because she is an Ewu.
Onyesonwu grows up in Jwahir after spending six years in the desert alone with her mother.
Onyesonwu is a product of rape, her mother Najeeba’s was raped alongside other Okeke women by a Nuru man when her village was attacked and destroyed by the Nuru's. The plot shift back her arrival in Jwahir. The novel opens with the death of Onyesonwu’s Father, which occurs when Onyesonwu was sixteen. The novel is narrated by Onyesonwu to a journalist who interviews her before her execution. On reaching maturity, she goes on a quest to defeat her sorcerous father Daib using her magical powers. the child of an Okeke woman raped by a Nuru man. The novel follows the protagonist, Onyesonwu (Igbo for "who fears death"), is an Ewu, i.e.
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