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. Surrounded by unknown faces that soon become friends, lovers and enemies, Obiefuna finds and hides who he really is and, while his mother ,Uzoamaka ,grapples to hold on to her favorite son, her truest friend. When he leaves school as a young man, Nigeria criminalizes same sex relationships ,and Obiefuna's life or the life he wants to live becomes even harder to envision -out of reach in a way that is more tangible than before.
Told from the alternating perspectives of Obiefuna and Uzoamaka as they reach towards a future that will hold them both, BLESSINGS is a novel that is an elegant and exclusively 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 consciousness.