![]() ![]() There is exploration of self and sexuality, there are friends that become family, there is so much.Īkwaeke is able to render a world that feels vital and true. We see, as the novel unfolds, who Vivek was as a child and the journey that was a life ended too quickly. Even as Vivek is mourned deeply, we discover many of those that are shattered by the loss refused to see and really accept Vivek in life. We are then taken on an incredible journey through and around the life of Vivek, who is a young person from southeastern Nigeria. What happens to a person denied the space to be themselves? What does it look like to choose yourself? What is it to be, to exist, even against a multifaceted external denial? What can bloom when a person is enveloped in love? Akwaeke Emezi’s brilliant novel, The Death of Vivek Oji, asks these essential kinds of questions and more.Įarly in the novel we are introduced to the tragedy that is its namesake. ![]()
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