![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The signs of who Vivek really is are there for the reading – the long hair, his affinity for eyeliner, but his family choose to think that he is afflicted by a mysterious illness. While he is alive, Vivek is unseen, and in his quest for getting those around him to see his gender fluidity, he plummets into a mental health crisis. ![]() This oscillates with the present – Kavita’s quest to get to the bottom of her son’s death through his cousin Osita and his group of friends.Įmezi uses the concept of “seeing”, “not seeing” and “blindness” as a device for tapping into our prejudices – the way in which we are only able to see that which we want to see. The story is told through a juxtapositioning of the past and present – through a series of flashbacks, we are privy to Vivek’s struggle to conform to the binaries of gendered identity in conservative southern Nigeria. Consumed by grief, Kavita sets about trying to find out what had happened. Vivek’s mother, Kavita, opens her front door one day to find the naked body of her son, wrapped in akwete cloth, on her veranda. The book is part romance, part mystery, and, fundamentally, a story about searching for and claiming identity. ![]()
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