The astonishing new novel from the author of Freshwater - Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction and the Wellcome Book Prize
Akwaeke Emezi is a writer and video artist based in liminal spaces. A 2018 National Book Foundation '5 Under 35' honoree, their debut novel Freshwater was longlisted for both the Women's Prize for Fiction and for the Wellcome Book Prize. It was also a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award, the Center for Fiction's First Novel Prize, a Lambda Literary Award, and the New York Public Library's Young Lions Award, among others. Their first novel for young adults, Pet, was a finalist for the National Book Award for Young People's Literature. Emezi's writing has appeared in T: The New York Times Style Magazine, BuzzFeed and The Cut, among other publications.
'Emezi's surreal prose shines...extraordinary.' - Ayobami Adebayo,
on FRESHWATER, Guardian
'This book lured me in from the first sentence. It shook me to the
core. This book forges its own glorious path. Read it now. Give it
to everyone you know. Read it again.' - Daisy Johnson, on
FRESHWATER
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