Glory is a thirty-year-old Nigerian American law school dropout working at a call center in Minneapolis. All her life, she has been unlucky. It started with her birth when her parents gave her the name Glorybetogod. Upon seeing her for the first time, her grandfather proclaimed that she was unlucky. He advised her to overcome her lack of luck by trying to trick the universe. Glory struggles to follow that advice and tries to kill herself on her thirtieth birthday to no avail. A handsome, educated Nigerian man named Thomas starts working at the call center. They start dating–a miracle–and Glory boasts about him on her Facebook page. He starts using plural pronouns to describe them, and she sees a future for the two of them looming on the horizon. Still, she has a bad feeling concerning the whole thing. Thomas’s mother comes into town, and Glory meets her. The meeting is neither terrible nor particularly good. Thomas proposes to Glory. Glory itches with the familiar feeling that has afflicted her at every crossroads in her life. She doesn't know what to do, but she knows that she must make a decision.