Tab Article
A quiet coming-of-age story told from inside one mind. This book follows a Nigerian boy trying to understand school, loneliness, friendship, family, desire, shame, and the strange performance of becoming a person while feeling permanently out of step with everyone around him. There are no dramatic twists. No inspirational speeches. No clean lessons waiting at the end. Instead, the story moves through memories, observations, jokes, anxieties, and small private moments with documentary honesty — the way real thinking actually sounds when nobody is editing it for presentation. The voice is conversational, restrained, and deeply self-aware. Sentences pull back, correct themselves, hesitate, then continue. The result feels less like a traditional novel and more like someone sitting beside you telling the truth carefully, one thought at a time. For readers who have ever felt too quiet for the world around them.
National Library of Nigeria.jpg)
Association of Nigerian Authors
Nigerian Library Association
EagleScan
Crossref