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 a 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. Abandoned by his birth mother, losing his adoptive mother to cancer, and failing to connect with his distant adoptive father, Leke—a troubled young man living in Cape Town—has developed some odd and possibly destructive habits: he stalks strangers, steals small objects, and visits doctors and healers in search of friendship. Through a series of letters written to him from prison by his Nigerian father, a man he has never met, Leke learns about the family curse—a curse which his father had unsuccessfully tried to remove. Leke’s search to break the curse leads him to strange places. Bom Boy is a beautifully crafted, complex narrative written with a sensitive understanding of both the smallness and magnitude of a single life.