6/27/2023 0 Comments The death of vivek oji![]() ![]() The women on the bus looked openly at him, his white shirt billowing out from the back of his neck in a cloud, and they smiled and whispered among themselves because he was beautiful. The first print would be of him riding a bus to the village to visit his mother it would show him dangling an arm out of the window, feeling the air push against his face and the breeze entering his smile.Ĭhika was twenty and as tall as his mother, six feet of red skin and suntouched-clay hair, teeth like polished bones. If this story was a stack of photographs-the old kind, rounded at the corners and kept in albums under the glass and lace doilies of center tables in parlors across the country-it would start with Vivek’s father, Chika. Their second book, Pet, was a finalist for the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature. Emezi's first book was Freshwater, named a New York Times Notable Book and shortlisted for the PEN/Hemingway Award, the NYPL Young Lions Fiction Award, the Lambda Literary Award, and the Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize, and longlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award. ![]() The following is excerpted from Akwaeke Emezi's new novel, The Death of Vivek Oji. ![]()
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