Status Updates From Blessings: A Novel

“I’ve been imprisoned all my life, Daddy.”
“What would people say, Obiefuna?”

Books have thought me a lot of things but something it is still teaching me is how to relate and have conversations with my children in the future.

There is no way your child is being vulnerable with you for the first time ever and you just ruined it. The only time you managed to actually get him to talk.

The end of part two was so intense. I got chills

“Frankly, Anozie, I don’t care how you feel. At the end of the day there’s only one person truly suffering here and it’s not you— or me.”

You tell him!!

You saw your ‘feminine’ son looking at another boy in a romantic way and the first thing you thought of is to send him to an all-boys school?? To toughen him up?? Clown.

I’d have appreciated a translation to the Igbo sentences.

“Obiefuna’s mother, Uzoamaka, emerged from the kitchen.”

It’s always that goddamn kitchen. The women are always there or emerge from there. Burn it down now.