{"product_id":"freshwater","title":"Freshwater","description":"Review\n\nSheer perfection: sexy, sensual, spiritual, wise. One of the most dazzling debuts I've ever read. -- Taiye Selasi ― Guardian Best Books 2017\n\n'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, author of Man Booker Prize shortlisted Everything Under\n\nRemarkable and daring. -- Tariro Mzezewa ― New York Times\n\nI'm urging everyone to read it... an intense reading experience. ― Sophie Mackintosh, author of Man Booker Prize longlisted The Water Cure\n\nWow. The net effect is a feeling of being peeled open, and quickly finding that skinless place to be normal. More than any novel I can remember, it feels utterly present to the place we are in the world. ― Binyavanga Wainaina, author of One Day I will Write About this Place\n\nThe book is so shivery, so electric, that the first coherent thought you can put together as you read is that you're watching a major new talent beginning to carve out a space for herself. ― Vox\n\nWith a plot as alive and urgent as it is relatable, Freshwater is also solidly its own, brims with its unique preoccupations. Never before have I read a novel like it - one that speaks to the unification and separation of bodies and souls, the powers or lack tehreof of gods and humans, and the long and arduous journey to claiming our many selves, or to setting our many selves free.' ― Chinelo Okparanta, author of Under the Udala Trees\n\n'A striking debut exploring a Nigerian woman who develops separate selves within her. As she moves to university in the US, her multiple identities narrate the novel. We're excited to say the least.' -- Layla Haidrani ― Metro\n\nAda, the heroine of Akwaeke Emezi's unforgettable debut novel, is not the narrator of her own story. Those duties belong to the other \"selves\" that occupy her body, more in an ancient souls trapped in a human shell kind of way than a Multiple Personality Disorder way, but the outcome is the same. The conflicts inside her head have voices, and they follow her from her childhood in Nigeria to college in America, ensuring that chaos imbues every step in her journey toward self-discovery -- The 27 Most Anticipated Books of 2018 ― Esquire\n\nA courageous debut novel by Akwaeke Emezi, one of a new generation of Nigerian novelists who are braving forbidden themes, including homosexuality, drug-taking and mental illness. ― 1843\n\nAkwaeke Emezi (she\/they) has a brilliant voice and her perspective, being non-binary, trans, and an ogbanje spirit herself, lends the novel its heart. The story pushes back against the typical Western language and ideas surrounding gender and consciousness, and rejects colonialism's attempt to delegitimize Nigerian tradition and Igbo spirituality. -- Ngozi Nwadiogbu, 10 Vital Books to Read During Women's Month ― Interview Magazine\n\nBewitching and heart-rending ... a coming-of-age novel like no other. -- David Wright ― Seattle Times\n\n[An] indigenous fairy tale. -- Katy Waldman ― New Yorker\n\nFilled with beautiful, lush sentences, through Freshwater, Emezi offers us a lens into [another] world and creates a stunning landscape in the process. The novel explores the trauma of a life as worthy of being seen, and we should all be grateful for this contribution. ― The Rumpus\n\n'Freshwater is one of those dazzling novels that defies these kinds of descriptions. We can gesture to the story - set in Nigeria and America, told by all the selves of its Tamil\/Igbo protagonist - but such synthesis fails to convey the magic that awaits its reader. At once fiction and memoir, potent in its spiritual richness and sexual frankness, the text seems not to have been written by but channelled through its brilliant author. This may be Emezi's debut novel but she is an old - an ancient - storyteller: thrillingly at home in the tradition of griots, poets, seers and seekers.' ― Taiye Selasi, author of Ghana Must Go\n\nProduct Description\n\n'Co","brand":"Faber \u0026 Faber","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40597283864661,"sku":"9780571345403N","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2481\/5790\/files\/68f7e023-b6e6-4695-959d-1abd21559590.jpg?v=1682499295","url":"https:\/\/smeikalbooks.co.uk\/en-us\/products\/freshwater","provider":"smeikalbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}