num_pages: 250
description: Leke is a troubled young man living in the suburbs of Cape Town. He develops strange habits of stalking people stealing small objects and going from doctor to doctor in search of companionship rather than cure. Through a series of letters written to him by his Nigerian father whom he has never met Leke learns about a family curse; a curse which his father had unsuccessfully tried to remove. Bom Boy is a well-crafted and complex narrative written with a sensitive understanding of both the smallness and magnitude of a single life.
language: English
title: Bom Boy
publisher: Modjaji Books