When Everything Good Comes is a coming of age tale, looking at life through the eyes of a teenager, being raised by a single mother in Nigeria.We meet Molebi, who lives with her mother and two older sisters in a poor area of Lagos. Her father abandoned the family, in search of a woman to bear him sons. Molebi's mother hangs on to the anger that she feels for her husband for years. Despite this, she stays true to the marital vows that her husband had since broken, and she works hard to provide an honest living for her girls. This is not easy, there are men that wanted to take advantage of her situation and try to manipulate her into satisfying their desires for a price.Molebi and her sisters have a great deal of curiosity about their father. Molebi likes to think he might secretly be following their progress. The truth is, however, that he deserted them and left them in poverty. In spite of their circumstances, the family finds many reasons to laugh. Molebi especially enjoys people watching, and she often astutely can sum them up, in a way that is humorous. Her metaphors and similes are very funny. Looking at life through Molebi's eyes is eye opening and entertaining.As Molebi matures through the pages, we can see that she's a fine young woman with a good heart.When one of the sisters, Renike, becomes famous on a TV reality show, people start reappearing in their lives, and the return of one of these people holds the biggest surprise of all.