Tochukwu Obiekwe

Picking My Pieces Tochukwu Obiekwe

The book Picking My Pieces is a novel that tells the story of a little girl named Lorita and her Mother Margaret. Lorita was raped and abuse as child by her own uncle, which made her to grow up with fear and the feeling that her sense of innocence has been snatched away from her. At a point when she left her home town to go and stay with her aunty Oyidiya and family, she started seeing a new light in her life. her mother later died and she suffered a second rape and abuse that turned her world around. And that made to desire to kill herself; because her life has been broken into pieces. But God sent her comfort through her cousin Nmasinachi. She encouraged her and asked her to pick up her pieces and continue with her life, which she did.