A KIND OF SILENCE

Abstract

Prompted by a phone call, Feranmi, a 30-year-old woman, returns to her hometown of Owo to see her father after seventeen years of estrangement. She realizes his wife has other plans and he's taken to a nursing home. There, she encounters a significant figure from her past - her teacher and student pastor when she was in boarding school, where her best friend had mysteriously died. She soon discovers that what she has always believed about some details of her past is false and embarks on a mission to dig out the truth, while navigating her new relationship with her ill father. These two timelines intertwine - the present in the nursing home and the past in boarding school - a blend of coming-of-age, aging, caregiving, friendship, and estrangement as a device for the surreal.