Speak No Evil

"e;A lovely slender volume that packs in entire worlds with complete mastery.

Speak No Evil explains so much about our times and yet is never anything less than a scintillating, page-turning read."e;Gary Shteyngart "e;A wrenching, tightly woven story about many kinds of love and many kinds of violence.Speak No Evilprobes deeply but also with compassion the cruelties of a loving home.

Iwealas characters confront you in close-up, as viscerally, bodily alive as any in contemporary fiction."e;Larissa MacFarquharIn 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., hes 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 queeran abominable sin to his conservative Nigerian parents.

No one knows except Meredith, his best friend, the daughter of prominent Washington insidersand 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 Diazs The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichies 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 Iwealassecond novel cuts to the core of our humanity and leaves us reeling in its wake.A 2018 Indie Next Pick | One ofThe Millions Most Anticipated Books of 2018 | One of Bustles 35 Most Anticipated Fiction Books Of 2018| One ofPaste's25 Most Anticipated Books of 2018 | One ofThe Boston Globes 25 Books We Cant Wait to Read in 2018