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02405aam a22003378i 4500 001 8E8D7962223B11EF96E545AA58ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240604012727 008 230801s2024 nyu 000 1 eng 010 $a 2023034777 020 $a 0385550642 020 $a 9780385550642 040 $a IEN/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d SILO 050 00 $a PR9387.9.I13 $b B57 2024 082 00 $2 23/eng/20230801 100 1 $a Ibeh, Chukwuebuka, $e author. 245 10 $a BLESSINGS : $b A NOVEL / $c Chukwuebuka Ibeh. 263 $a 2406 264 1 $a New York : $b Doubleday, $c 2024. 300 $a pages cm 500 $a 2024/06/04 520 $a "Moonlight meets Purple Hibiscus in this gay coming-of-age novel from an astonishing young talent, set in post-military Nigeria and culminating in the Same-Sex Marriage Prohibition Act of 2014. Obiefuna has always been the black sheep of his family-sensitive where his father, Anozie, is pragmatic, a dancer where his brother, Ekene, is a natural athlete. But when an intimate connection blossoms between Obiefuna and a boy from a nearby village, happiness is fleeting once his father catches them together andbanishes him to boarding school. Obiefuna finds and hides who he truly is as he navigates his new school's strict hierarchy and unpredictable violence. Back home, his mother Uzoamaka must contend with the absence of her beloved son, her husband's crypticreasons for sending him away, and the hard truths that they've all been hiding from. As Nigeria teeters on the brink of criminalizing same-sex relationships, Obiefuna's life, or the life he wants to live, becomes even further out of a reach and more dangerous than ever before. Told from the alternating perspectives of Obiefuna and Uzoamaka, Blessings is an elegant and exquisitely moving story that asks how to live freely in a country that forbids one's truest self, and the love that can flourish in spiteof it all"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Gay men $z Nigeria $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Gay men $x Family relationships $z Nigeria $v Fiction. 655 7 $a Gay fiction. $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Novels. $2 lcgft $9 200624 776 08 $i Online version: 776 08 $a Ibeh, Chukwuebuka. $t Blessings $d New York : Doubleday, 2024 $z 9780385550659 $w (DLC) 2023034778 941 $a 1 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20240604014119.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=8E8D7962223B11EF96E545AA58ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search