LONE CROW, BARE TREE Is ’Killing Lone Crow on Leafless Tree, a better title for this story? If trying to survive a loveless marriage, Jide, a man obedient to his passions, tried to break loose from his mother’s pronouncements of existential fate, in Lagos, a world of swindlers and corruption. Is this a fearful or fearless change and is it for the better or worse?