The day after a major riot at the market, Vivek Oji's mother discovers her son's body lying on their veranda, lifeless. A simple canvas printed with red hibiscus covers his naked body. How could such a tragic fate have struck this twenty-year-old young man, who had such a bright future ahead of him?

The mother then begins to explore the past, looking for bits of answers, signs. Vivek was certainly born with a strange spot near his ankle. Then he had curiously let his hair grow longer and longer, despite his father's wrath. Sometimes, he also seemed to be floating, elsewhere. In the background, his cousin also speaks to reveal Vivek's secret side, his hidden pleasure in dressing as a woman, his attraction to men...

As the book progresses, it creates a complex and moving portrait of a person born into a Nigerian society and a family that does not accept him as he would like to be in broad daylight.

From a feather …