Books like Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi
Freshwater interweaves a modern retelling of a Nigerian fable with a raw, unflinching account of the protagonist’s multiple traumas. By viewing psychological struggles through a non‑Western lens, Akwaeke Emezi illuminates the complex ways grief, self‑harm, dissociation, and identity are lived and survived in contemporary Nigeria.
First publish date: 2018
Genre: LGBTQ+ Fiction/Queer Contemporary Fiction
Authors: Akwaeke Emezi
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