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reviewed Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi

Akwaeke Emezi: Freshwater (Paperback, 2019, Faber & Faber, Limited) 4 stars

Both a recounting of trauma and its impacts, as well as a retelling of a …

precious perspective

5 stars

a description of massive trauma from a non-western perspective that sits at the intersection of many oppressed categories, blackness, queerness, transness, neurodivergency (these 'categories' coming of course short of capturing the incredible richness of the author's experience)... heavy to read, I could have used some more content warnings from the person who introduced me to it... but I found it beautiful and necessary, I cried a lot