Blessings: ‘A sublime coming-of-age tale’ Guardian
Feb 2024 · Random House
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'Chukwuebuka Ibeh's writing has a certain delicacy to it, so wonderfully observant, and so beautiful' Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
'A sublime coming-of-age tale... an extraordinarily composed and deeply felt debut' Guardian
When Obiefuna's father witnesses an intimate moment between his teenage son and the family's apprentice, newly arrived from the nearby village, he banishes Obiefuna to a Christian boarding school marked by strict hierarchy and routine, devastating violence. Utterly alienated from the people he loves, Obiefuna begins a journey of self-discovery and blossoming desire, while his mother Uzoamaka grapples to hold onto her favourite son, her truest friend.
Interweaving the perspectives of Obiefuna and his mother Uzoamaka, as they reach towards a future that will hold them both, BLESSINGS is an elegant and exquisitely moving story of love and loneliness. Asking how we can live freely when politics reaches into our hearts and lives, as well as deep into our consciousness, it is a stunning, searing debut.
'A moving debut about love and loneliness' Sunday Times
'Marks the arrival of Chukwuebuka Ibeh as a significant new moral, literary talent' The i
'Wonderful, vivid' Patrick Gale
'A magnificent debut' Daily Telegraph
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2024 WILBUR SMITH ADVENTURE WRITING PRIZE
'A sublime coming-of-age tale... an extraordinarily composed and deeply felt debut' Guardian
When Obiefuna's father witnesses an intimate moment between his teenage son and the family's apprentice, newly arrived from the nearby village, he banishes Obiefuna to a Christian boarding school marked by strict hierarchy and routine, devastating violence. Utterly alienated from the people he loves, Obiefuna begins a journey of self-discovery and blossoming desire, while his mother Uzoamaka grapples to hold onto her favourite son, her truest friend.
Interweaving the perspectives of Obiefuna and his mother Uzoamaka, as they reach towards a future that will hold them both, BLESSINGS is an elegant and exquisitely moving story of love and loneliness. Asking how we can live freely when politics reaches into our hearts and lives, as well as deep into our consciousness, it is a stunning, searing debut.
'A moving debut about love and loneliness' Sunday Times
'Marks the arrival of Chukwuebuka Ibeh as a significant new moral, literary talent' The i
'Wonderful, vivid' Patrick Gale
'A magnificent debut' Daily Telegraph
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2024 WILBUR SMITH ADVENTURE WRITING PRIZE
About the author
Chukwuebuka Ibeh is a writer from Port Harcourt, Nigeria, born in 2000. His writing has appeared in McSweeneys, The New England Review of Books and Lolwe, amongst others, and he is a staff writer at Brittle Paper. He was the Runner-up for the 2021 J.F Powers Prize for Fiction, a finalist for the Gerald Kraak Award and Morland Foundation Scholarship and was profiled as one of the "Most Promising New Voices of Nigerian Fiction" in Electric Literature. He has studied creative writing under Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Dave Eggers and Tash Aw. He is a student on a fully funded MFA programme at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, until 2024.
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