communal crushes aren’t so fun when real feelings are involved
Time does not seem to exist and there are no obvious borders or portals to cross back into her home world
applying her talents and lifting up those that surround her as she does
as likely to make you laugh out loud as it is to make you cry" (The Washington Post)
In this wickedly funny cultural critique
The Death of Vivek Oji Format:Hardcover communal crushes aren’t so funINSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Named a Best Book of 2020 by The New York Times, The Washington Post, NPR, USA TODAY, Vanity Fair, Elle, Harper's Bazaar, Marie Claire, Shondaland, Teen Vogue, Vulture, Lit Hub, Bustle, Electric Literature, and BookPage What does it mean for a family to lose a child they never really knew? One afternoon, in a town in southeastern Nigeria, a mother opens her front door to discover her son's body, wrapped in colorful