Story in current Harpers (Gllory): an immigrant's tale or a universal truth?

Lesley Nneka Arimah's story Glory in current Harpers is not exactly ground-breaking in style of subject matter but is a thoughtful look at the troubled life of a young woman, immigrant (at age 6, so very Americanized, so to speak) from Nigeria, settled in Minneapolis and working a menial job (after bad college experiences and dropping out of law school), the girl, the eponymous Glory (actually Glorybetogod is her name - have to love that - Arimah remarks on the difficulties she experiences w/ driver's license and FB page) brings shame on her parents because of her lack of success and her single, childless status. At work she meets a young man, fellow Nigerian immigrant (but  much more recent arrival and therefore more conventional and traditional - devoted to parents, chaste, sober) who falls in love with her. Since he's exactly the kind of man her parents would want her to marry, all should be good, right? - but no, she has a self-destructive streak. Most would see hers as some kind of condition, depression or borderline behavior or something, but she - drawing on family and cultural traditions - sees herself as simply cursed, born to live under a dark star, so to speak. Her grandfather pronounced this on her shortly after her birth - and it's hard, impossible, to say whether he "saw" something in her or if his pronunciation defined and sealed her fate. In any event, the more her man - Tom - seems to want her and love her, the more she pulls away from him (and his doting mother). At the end, Glory has to make a decision; Arimah is coy about that and leaves us hanging, a little, at the end - but we kind of figure out which direction Glory's life will take. Her depression and bad decisions could be the story of many young women - it's not necessarily a story of a Nigerian immigrant, but the overlay of spiritualism and legend - her grandfather tells a story about tricking the gods that seems to influence her life - gives the story a multi-cultural subtext that makes the story a little more appealing and informative (and publishable, to be honest) than the same story would have been if told about an American-born troubled 20-something.