Speak no evil / Uzodinma Iweala.
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.
Record details
- ISBN: 0061284920
- ISBN: 9780061284922
- Physical Description: 214 pages ; 24 cm
- Publisher: New York : HarperCollins Publishers, [2018]
Content descriptions
General Note: | Publisher, publishing date and paging may vary. |
Target Audience Note: | 960L Lexile |
Awards Note: | Stonewall Honor, Fiction 2019 |
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Subject: | Gay teenagers > Fiction. Nigerian Americans > Fiction. Authors, African. Gay culture > Fiction. Sexual minorities > Fiction. Sexual orientation > Fiction. Washington (D.C.) > Fiction. |
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- 9 of 9 copies available at Missouri Evergreen.
- 1 of 1 copy available at Trails Regional. (Show)
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- 0 current holds with 9 total copies.
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Cape Girardeau Public Library | IWE (Text) | 33042004640903 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Festus Public Library | Fic Iweala (Text) | 32017000077098 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Henry County - Main Library | Fic Iw9U (Text) | I0000000271647 | Fiction | Available | - |
Jefferson County Library-Arnold | F IWEALA Uzodinma (Text)
Digital Bookplate:
Stonewall Honor, Fiction -- 2019
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30061000255568 | Fiction | Available | - |
Little Dixie - Paris | YA 823.92 IWEALA (Text) | 2004182148 | Non-Fiction Shelves | Available | - |
Livingston County Library - Main Library | IWEALA (Text) | 2601839120 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Morgan County Library | AF IWE (Text) | 35319000107196 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
North Kansas City Public Library | FICTION IWEALA 2018 (Text) | 0001002236188 | Fiction | Available | - |
Trails Regional-Warrensburg | FIC Iwe (Text) | 2204697826 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Speak No Evil : A Novel
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Summary
Speak No Evil : A Novel
Winner of the Gold Nautilus Award for Fiction | A Lambda Literary Award Finalist | A Barbara Gittings Literature Award Finalist | One of Bustle's and Paste's Most Anticipated Fiction Books of the Year "Speak No Evil is the rarest of novels: the one you start out just to read, then end up sinking so deeply into it, seeing yourself so clearly in it, that the novel starts reading you." -- Marlon James, Booker Award-winning author of A Brief History of Seven Killings 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. 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.