Dec. 6th, 2020

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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!
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