![]() We see Osita and Vivek separate and come together, over and over again. His cousin, Osita, discovers different, often conflicting feelings for Vivek as the book progresses. The reader sees Vivek’s mother, Kavita, mourning his loss, but they also see Kavita struggling to understand him when he is alive. They do it out of love, and often out of fear they do it out of what is expected of someone born at a given time in a given way. He is plain spoken in how he feels and acts, even though that behavior seems increasingly unsettling to those who care about him the trouble in the story occurs when the other characters attempt to bend Vivek’s feelings and actions to their expectations, hopes, and wills. In this way, Vivek Oji is a classic mystery.īut it is through the guise of a mystery that Emezi plays with our expectations, because in many ways, Vivek Oji the character is anything but a mystery. We know that Vivek will die from the first line: “They burned down the market on the day Vivek Oji died.” What we don’t know is how he dies, or why. ![]() The Death of Vivek Oji, the powerful new work by Akwaeke Emezi, is like Chronicle of a Death Foretold in that it gives up the ghost, so to speak, from the beginning. ![]()
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