Akwaeke Emezi's "Freshwater" is memoir

[lb_lee]

Thanks 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!

Comments

[hungryghosts]

We might swallow the bullet and read it. Just gotta wait for our copy to get to us.

[lb_lee]

Yeah, I definitely want to buy a copy, just to support Emezi if nothing else. But the past year, I feel like I'm just circling this book like an incompetent hungry tiger or something, like, "eventually, I'm gonna take a bite out of it! EVENTUALLY!"

[sinistmer]

Haven't read it, but I found a couple of reviews with content warnings:

https://thewonderlostreader.com/freshwater-by-akwaeke-emezi/

https://lisaannreads.com/review-freshwater/

https://bookandtrail.wordpress.com/2018/04/29/book-love-freshwater/