Akwaeke Emezi’s sixth novel for adults, Little Rot, hurtles toward devastation, but even as you anticipate the horrors ahead, the escapist thriller-style pacing will keep you pushing on.
Akwaeke Emezi’s first romance novel, You Made a Fool of Death With Your Beauty, is a hot and sultry read. As she told us, “It’s not a literary novel pretending to be a romance. Like, no, I wrote it for the genre.”
Akwaeke Emezi shifts effortlessly into the mode of poet, exploring spirituality and loss in ways that feel fertile and new.
In Dear Senthuran, Akwaeke Emezi explodes human limitations by insisting on the imagination’s power to create worlds.
It takes a village to raise a child. But as Akwaeke Emezi implies in this novel, it takes a culture and its mythologies to erase a child.
Akwaeke Emezi, the acclaimed author of last year’s buzzy Freshwater, further asserts themself as a unique, bold new voice with the surreal Pet.
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