{"product_id":"speak-no-evil-a-novel-isbn-9780061284922","title":"Speak No Evil: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWinner of the Gold Nautilus Award for Fiction | A Lambda Literary Award Finalist | A Barbara Gittings Literature Award Finalist |\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eOne of Bustle’s and Paste’s Most Anticipated Fiction Books of the Year \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e“\u003cem\u003eSpeak No Evil\u003c\/em\u003e 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 \u003cem\u003eA Brief History of Seven Killings\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIn the tradition of Junot Diaz’s \u003cem\u003eThe Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao\u003c\/em\u003e and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s \u003cem\u003eAmericanah, Speak No Evil\u003c\/em\u003e explores what it means to be different in a fundamentally conformist society and how that difference plays out in our inner and outer struggles. \u003c\/strong\u003eIt 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, \u003cem\u003eBeasts of No Nation,\u003c\/em\u003e Uzodinma Iweala’s second novel cuts to the core of our humanity and leaves us reeling in its wake.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen 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.\u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003eOn the surface, Niru leads a charmed life. Raised by two attentive parents in Washington, DC, he’s a top student and a track star at his prestigious private high school, bound for Harvard in the fall. But Niru has a painful secret: he is gay—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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen Niru’s father accidentally discovers an incriminating text on his phone, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs heart-wrenching and timely as his breakout debut, \u003cem\u003eBeasts of No Nation\u003c\/em\u003e, Uzodinma Iweala’s new novel cuts to the core of our humanity and leaves us reeling in its wake.\u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003e“A lovely slender volume that packs in entire worlds with complete mastery. \u003cem\u003eSpeak No Evil\u003c\/em\u003e explains so much about our times and yet is never anything less than a scintillating, page-turning read.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eGary Shteyngart, author of Little Failure\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A wrenching, tightly woven story about many kinds of love and many kinds of violence. \u003cem\u003eSpeak No Evil\u003c\/em\u003e probes deeply but also with compassion the cruelties of a loving home. Iweala’s characters confront you in close-up, as viscerally, bodily alive as any in contemporary fiction.”  - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLarissa MacFarquhar\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Portraying cross-generational and -cultural misunderstandings with anything but simplicity, Iweala tells an essential American story.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist, starred review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Iweala unwinds crucial issues of choice and the burden of playing multiple parts; says Niru, ‘It’s too confusing for me to live all these lives when I want only one.’ Throughout a narrative spiraling toward tragedy, Niru’s pain is so palpable it will make you gasp…. Highly recommended.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal, starred review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“In Uzodinma’s staggering sophomore novel (after \u003cem\u003eBeasts of No Nation\u003c\/em\u003e), the untimely disclosure of a secret shared between two teens from different backgrounds sets off a cascade of heartbreaking consequences…. Speaks volumes about white heterosexual privilege.... Notable both for the raw force of Iweala’s prose and the moving, powerful story.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly, starred review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“The classic coming-out narrative describes how the central character makes a leap from one identity to another, into a different, freer life, while the classic immigrant novel depicts what it’s like to straddle two worlds, old and new, with a foothold in each. \u003cem\u003eSpeak No Evil\u003c\/em\u003e is both and neither.... The soul of\u003cem\u003e Speak No Evil\u003c\/em\u003e is the tortuous, exquisitely rendered relationship between Niru and his father.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Heart-wrenching .... A visceral but compassionate portrait of what it means to be different within a family, let alone society at large.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWashington Blade\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A haunting story about identity and power.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePaste Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“An evocative narrative and stark dialogue keeps Uzodinma Iweala’s \u003cem\u003eSpeak No Evil\u003c\/em\u003e from a single dull moment.... His characters’ rawness and beauty overwhelm page by page, looping their two stories into one heartbreaking narrative, one that embodies and echoes the pains of current, broader inequalities.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAV Club\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A timely story of friendship, secrets, and consequences.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eVogue\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003eSpeak No Evil\u003c\/em\u003e 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.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMarlon James, Booker Award-winning author of A Brief History of Seven Killings\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Iweala is a unique and surprising writer....[His] forceful writing, defined by sentences of only a handful of words that move at an accelerated clip, shines when he digs into Niru’s psyche. He has a rare gift for capturing stream-of-consciousness thought, tackling it at a pace that’s quick but authentic.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eEntertainment Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A searing take on the notion of home, and the struggle to be at home with oneself.... \u003cem\u003eSpeak No Evil\u003c\/em\u003e deals with less epic subject matter [than \u003cem\u003eBeasts of No Nation\u003c\/em\u003e], but there’s subtle power in its intimacy and in its depictions of the violence we do to each other and to ourselves.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSeattle Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Iweala writes with such ease about adolescents and adolescence that \u003cem\u003eSpeak No Evil\u003c\/em\u003e could well be a young adult novel. At the same time, he toys with other well-defined forms: the immigrant novel, the gay coming-of-age novel, the novel of being black in America. The resulting book is a hybrid of all these. If he’s something of a remix artist, Iweala remains faithful to the conventions of these forms, a writer so adept that the book’s climax feels both surprising and wholly inevitable.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Iweala stirringly brings to life a young man at war with \u003cem\u003ehimself \u003c\/em\u003ein this moving new novel.... \u003cem\u003eSpeak No Evil\u003c\/em\u003e isn’t an easy read. It is, however, compelling, sensitively told, and satisfying.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLambda Literary\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"How would Iweala top [\u003cem\u003eBeasts of No Nation\u003c\/em\u003e]? The answer is by moving us to a different kind of war zone.... Though the destination of this story is tragically unsurprising, it has the stomach-churning pace of a Greek tragedy. Iweala’s scope is modest — those handful of streets, 10 or so scenes, a couple of hundred pages — but the novel burns with teenage intensity.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Financial Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harper","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44888611324133,"sku":"NP9780061284922","price":26.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780061284922.jpg?v=1730229441","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/speak-no-evil-a-novel-isbn-9780061284922","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}