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Harper
March 2018
On Sale: March 6, 2018
224 pages
ISBN: 0061284920
EAN: 9780061284922
Kindle: B071YRW88J
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LGBTQ | Young Adult
In the long-anticipated novel from the author of the
critically acclaimed Beasts of No Nation, a revelation
shared between two privileged teenagers from very
different backgrounds sets off a chain of events with
devastating consequences. On the surface, Niru leads a charmed life. Raised by two
attentive parents in Washington, D.C., he’s a top student
and a track star at his prestigious private high school.
Bound for Harvard in the fall, his prospects are bright.
But Niru has a painful secret: he is queer—an abominable
sin to his conservative Nigerian parents. No one knows
except Meredith, his best friend, the daughter of
prominent Washington insiders—and the one person who
seems not to judge him. When his father accidentally discovers Niru is gay, the
fallout is brutal and swift. Coping with troubles of her
own, however, Meredith finds that she has little left
emotionally to offer him. As the two friends struggle to
reconcile their desires against the expectations and
institutions that seek to define them, they find
themselves speeding toward a future more violent and
senseless than they can imagine. Neither will escape
unscathed. In the tradition of Junot Diaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life
of Oscar Wao and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah,
Speak No Evil explores what it means to be different in a
fundamentally conformist society and how that difference
plays out in our inner and outer struggles. It is a novel
about the power of words and self-identification, about
who gets to speak and who has the power to speak for
other people. As heart-wrenching and timely as his
breakout debut, Beasts of No Nation, Uzodinma Iweala’s
second novel cuts to the core of our humanity and leaves
us reeling in its wake. A 2018 Indie Next Pick | One of The Millions’ Most
Anticipated Books of 2018 | One of Bustle’s 35 Most
Anticipated Fiction Books Of 2018 | One of Paste's 25
Most Anticipated Books of 2018 | One of The Boston
Globe’s 25 Books We Can’t Wait to Read in 2018
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