![]() ![]() Emezi’s debut novel is a semi-autobiographical coming-of-age tale like no other, one that defies genre boundaries and assumptions as easily as it disrupts Western ideas around identity, spirituality, and gender. As such, I knew I was in for an interesting and unusual read, but I was not prepared for just how intense, powerful, and original Freshwater is. I am my others we are one and we are many.”įreshwater (2018) by Igbo and Tamil author Akwaeke Emezi just won this year’s Otherwise Award and was the first book nominated for the Women’s Prize for Fiction written by a nonbinary author. I am here and not here, real and not real, energy pushed into skin and bone. Ọgbanje are as liminal as is possible – spirit and human, both and neither. ![]() ![]() For that one, though, the secret was in the situation. “It was difficult to accept not being human but still being contained in a human body. ![]()
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