A review by sarful
Speak No Evil by Uzodinma Iweala
4.0
3.5
Niru was born into an immigrant family from Africa. His parents are attentive, but often he feels the love conditional. Especially when his father finds out he’s gay when he finds his phone. Niru finds he has to choose between accepting his feelings are natural or believing his pastor who says he can be straight. That this is gay pain is very real and very present.
The last half of the book takes on a completely different kind of story, which shifted too much away from the original story. And I was slightly baffled by Meredith’s actions and reactions to Niru.
However, the ending was this bittersweet realization for Niru’s father and well done. Well worth reading, even if it wasn’t perfect.
Niru was born into an immigrant family from Africa. His parents are attentive, but often he feels the love conditional. Especially when his father finds out he’s gay when he finds his phone. Niru finds he has to choose between accepting his feelings are natural or believing his pastor who says he can be straight. That this is gay pain is very real and very present.
The last half of the book takes on a completely different kind of story, which shifted too much away from the original story. And I was slightly baffled by Meredith’s actions and reactions to Niru.
However, the ending was this bittersweet realization for Niru’s father and well done. Well worth reading, even if it wasn’t perfect.