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"Chukwuebuka Ibeh's writing has a certain delicacy to it, so wonderfully observant, and so beautiful." - Chimamanda Ngozie Adichie, author of Americanah . Moonlight meets Purple Hibiscus in this gay coming-of-age novel from an astonishing young talent, set in post-military Nigeria and culminating in the Same-Sex Marriage Prohibition Act of 2014.. Obiefuna has always been the black sheep of his family - sensitive where his father, Anozie, is pragmatic, a dancer where his brother, Ekene, is a natural athlete. But when an intimate connection blossoms between Obiefuna and a boy from a nearby village, happiness is fleeting once his father catches them together and banishes him to boarding school.. Obiefuna finds and hides who he truly is as he navigates his new school's strict hierarchy and unpredictable violence.