Akwaeke Emezi's "Freshwater" is memoir
Dec. 6th, 2020 02:56 pmThanks to @hungryghosts for letting us know about this! Emezi's first book, Freshwater, is memoir. From their Twitter:
"It’s like ~5% fiction in the childhood parts of the book, and the rest is straight memoir from a spirit first perspective. The conversations between the selves were literally copy pasted from my journals. I let it move as fiction because it needed that mask as my debut, you know? I don’t believe it would have been published as nonfiction because it would have required acknowledging that indigenous realities aren’t myths."
I need to read this book so badly. If one of y'all has, let me know and give me the warnings rundown so I can plow into it!
"It’s like ~5% fiction in the childhood parts of the book, and the rest is straight memoir from a spirit first perspective. The conversations between the selves were literally copy pasted from my journals. I let it move as fiction because it needed that mask as my debut, you know? I don’t believe it would have been published as nonfiction because it would have required acknowledging that indigenous realities aren’t myths."
I need to read this book so badly. If one of y'all has, let me know and give me the warnings rundown so I can plow into it!
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Date: 2020-12-08 03:35 am (UTC)https://thewonderlostreader.com/freshwater-by-akwaeke-emezi/
https://lisaannreads.com/review-freshwater/
https://bookandtrail.wordpress.com/2018/04/29/book-love-freshwater/