{"id":554,"date":"2024-03-07T00:01:36","date_gmt":"2024-03-07T00:01:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/masobebooks.com\/ng\/?post_type=product&#038;p=554"},"modified":"2026-02-16T09:24:57","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T09:24:57","slug":"blessings","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/masobebooks.com\/ng\/book\/blessings\/","title":{"rendered":"Blessings"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><span data-sheets-root=\"1\" data-sheets-value=\"{&quot;1&quot;:2,&quot;2&quot;:&quot;\u201cChukwuebuka Ibeh\u2019s writing has a certain delicacy to it, so wonderfully observant, and so beautiful.\u201d \u2014Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie \\n\\nWhen Obiefuna\u2019s father witnesses an intimate moment between his teenage son and the family\u2019s apprentice, newly arrived from the nearby village, he banishes Obiefuna to a Christian boarding school marked by strict hierarchy and routine, and devastating violence. Utterly alienated from the people he loves, Obiefuna begins a journey of self-discovery and blossoming desire, while his mother Uzoamaka grapples to hold onto her favourite son, and truest friend. \\n\\nInterweaving the perspectives of Obiefuna and his mother Uzoamaka, as they reach towards a future that will hold them both, BLESSINGS is an elegant and exquisitely moving story of love and loneliness. Asking how we can live freely when politics reaches into our hearts and lives, as well as deep into our consciousness, it is a stunning, searing debut.&quot;}\" data-sheets-userformat=\"{&quot;2&quot;:13185,&quot;3&quot;:{&quot;1&quot;:0},&quot;10&quot;:0,&quot;11&quot;:4,&quot;12&quot;:0,&quot;15&quot;:&quot;Google Sans&quot;,&quot;16&quot;:11}\">\u201cChukwuebuka Ibeh\u2019s writing has a certain delicacy to it, so wonderfully observant, and so beautiful.\u201d \u2014Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span data-sheets-root=\"1\" data-sheets-value=\"{&quot;1&quot;:2,&quot;2&quot;:&quot;\u201cChukwuebuka Ibeh\u2019s writing has a certain delicacy to it, so wonderfully observant, and so beautiful.\u201d \u2014Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie \\n\\nWhen Obiefuna\u2019s father witnesses an intimate moment between his teenage son and the family\u2019s apprentice, newly arrived from the nearby village, he banishes Obiefuna to a Christian boarding school marked by strict hierarchy and routine, and devastating violence. Utterly alienated from the people he loves, Obiefuna begins a journey of self-discovery and blossoming desire, while his mother Uzoamaka grapples to hold onto her favourite son, and truest friend. \\n\\nInterweaving the perspectives of Obiefuna and his mother Uzoamaka, as they reach towards a future that will hold them both, BLESSINGS is an elegant and exquisitely moving story of love and loneliness. Asking how we can live freely when politics reaches into our hearts and lives, as well as deep into our consciousness, it is a stunning, searing debut.&quot;}\" data-sheets-userformat=\"{&quot;2&quot;:13185,&quot;3&quot;:{&quot;1&quot;:0},&quot;10&quot;:0,&quot;11&quot;:4,&quot;12&quot;:0,&quot;15&quot;:&quot;Google Sans&quot;,&quot;16&quot;:11}\">When Obiefuna\u2019s father witnesses an intimate moment between his teenage son and the family\u2019s apprentice, newly arrived from the nearby village, he banishes Obiefuna to a Christian boarding school marked by strict hierarchy and routine, and devastating violence. Utterly alienated from the people he loves, Obiefuna begins a journey of self-discovery and blossoming desire, while his mother Uzoamaka grapples to hold onto her favourite son, and truest friend.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Interweaving the perspectives of Obiefuna and his mother Uzoamaka, as they reach towards a future that will hold them both, BLESSINGS is an elegant and exquisitely moving story of love and loneliness. Asking how we can live freely when politics reaches into our hearts and lives, as well as deep into our consciousness, it is a stunning, searing debut.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><span data-sheets-root=\"1\" data-sheets-value=\"{&quot;1&quot;:2,&quot;2&quot;:&quot;\u201cChukwuebuka Ibeh\u2019s writing has a certain delicacy to it, so wonderfully observant, and so beautiful.\u201d \u2014Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie \\n\\nWhen Obiefuna\u2019s father witnesses an intimate moment between his teenage son and the family\u2019s apprentice, newly arrived from the nearby village, he banishes Obiefuna to a Christian boarding school marked by strict hierarchy and routine, and devastating violence. Utterly alienated from the people he loves, Obiefuna begins a journey of self-discovery and blossoming desire, while his mother Uzoamaka grapples to hold onto her favourite son, and truest friend. \\n\\nInterweaving the perspectives of Obiefuna and his mother Uzoamaka, as they reach towards a future that will hold them both, BLESSINGS is an elegant and exquisitely moving story of love and loneliness. Asking how we can live freely when politics reaches into our hearts and lives, as well as deep into our consciousness, it is a stunning, searing debut.&quot;}\" data-sheets-userformat=\"{&quot;2&quot;:13185,&quot;3&quot;:{&quot;1&quot;:0},&quot;10&quot;:0,&quot;11&quot;:4,&quot;12&quot;:0,&quot;15&quot;:&quot;Google Sans&quot;,&quot;16&quot;:11}\">\u201cChukwuebuka Ibeh\u2019s writing has a certain delicacy to it, so wonderfully observant, and so beautiful.\u201d \u2014Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span data-sheets-root=\"1\" data-sheets-value=\"{&quot;1&quot;:2,&quot;2&quot;:&quot;\u201cChukwuebuka Ibeh\u2019s writing has a certain delicacy to it, so wonderfully observant, and so beautiful.\u201d \u2014Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie \\n\\nWhen Obiefuna\u2019s father witnesses an intimate moment between his teenage son and the family\u2019s apprentice, newly arrived from the nearby village, he banishes Obiefuna to a Christian boarding school marked by strict hierarchy and routine, and devastating violence. Utterly alienated from the people he loves, Obiefuna begins a journey of self-discovery and blossoming desire, while his mother Uzoamaka grapples to hold onto her favourite son, and truest friend. \\n\\nInterweaving the perspectives of Obiefuna and his mother Uzoamaka, as they reach towards a future that will hold them both, BLESSINGS is an elegant and exquisitely moving story of love and loneliness. Asking how we can live freely when politics reaches into our hearts and lives, as well as deep into our consciousness, it is a stunning, searing debut.&quot;}\" data-sheets-userformat=\"{&quot;2&quot;:13185,&quot;3&quot;:{&quot;1&quot;:0},&quot;10&quot;:0,&quot;11&quot;:4,&quot;12&quot;:0,&quot;15&quot;:&quot;Google Sans&quot;,&quot;16&quot;:11}\">When Obiefuna\u2019s father witnesses an intimate moment between his teenage son and the family\u2019s apprentice, newly arrived from the nearby village, he banishes Obiefuna to a Christian boarding school marked by strict hierarchy and routine, and devastating violence. Utterly alienated from the people he loves, Obiefuna begins a journey of self-discovery and blossoming desire, while his mother Uzoamaka grapples to hold onto her favourite son, and truest friend.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Interweaving the perspectives of Obiefuna and his mother Uzoamaka, as they reach towards a future that will hold them both, BLESSINGS is an elegant and exquisitely moving story of love and loneliness. Asking how we can live freely when politics reaches into our hearts and lives, as well as deep into our consciousness, it is a stunning, searing debut.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":555,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"retailer":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[332,504,347],"product_tag":[447,156],"class_list":{"0":"post-554","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-award-winning-books","7":"product_cat-lgbtq","8":"product_cat-literary-fiction","9":"product_tag-chukwuebuka-ibeh","10":"product_tag-lgbtq","11":"thb-post-share-style1","13":"first","14":"instock","15":"taxable","16":"shipping-taxable","17":"purchasable","18":"product-type-variable"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v23.1 (Yoast SEO v26.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Blessings - Masobe Books<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/masobebooks.com\/ng\/book\/blessings\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Blessings\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"\u201cChukwuebuka Ibeh\u2019s writing has a certain delicacy to it, so wonderfully observant, and so beautiful.\u201d \u2014Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie  When Obiefuna\u2019s father witnesses an intimate moment between his teenage son and the family\u2019s apprentice, newly arrived from the nearby village, he banishes Obiefuna to a Christian boarding school marked by strict hierarchy and routine, and devastating violence. 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