Freshwater

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Akwaeke Emezi: Freshwater (2018, Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated)

240 pages

English language

Published Jan. 5, 2018 by Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated.

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Both a recounting of trauma and its impacts, as well as a retelling of a Nigerian fable. The main character's multiple experiences of trauma are retold and the author unflinchingly explores how they are impacted (e.g., self-harm, dissociation). The character's psychology is viewed through a non-Western lens.

5 editions

Subjects

  • Fiction, biographical
  • Nigeria, fiction
  • Fiction, women

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