The sorrow into which Vivek was born never leaves their short life, for “this is how Vivek was born, after death and into grief. Through a chorus of family and friends’ voices trying to make sense of the death, the reader watches the compassion, confusion, and contradiction surrounding one person’s quest to affirm their identity.īorn on the day of their grandmother, Ahunna’s, death, Vivek becomes her incarnation, solidified by the starfish-shaped scar on Vivek’s body that resembles Kavita’s, Vivek’s mother. The why of their death (pronoun carefully chosen based on the development of the title character) feels obvious from the start-but one should not be so foolhardy as to predict anything in this novel. Knowing Vivek dies before one even opens the book, the reader’s tension mounts over the how. THE DEATH OF VIVEK OJI breaks the reader’s heart at every turn.
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