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Dear Senthuran: A Black spirit memoir

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Full Title:

Dear Senthuran: A Black spirit memoir

Contributors:

By (Author) Akwaeke Emezi

ISBN:

9780571366149

Publisher:

Faber & Faber

Imprint:

Faber & Faber

Publication Date:

31st August 2021

Edition:

Main

Country:

United Kingdom

Classifications

Readership:

General

Fiction/Non-fiction:

Non Fiction

Main Subject:
Other Subjects:

Literary essays

Dewey:

823.92

Physical Properties

Physical Format:

Hardback

Number of Pages:

240

Dimensions:

Width 135mm, Height 216mm, Spine 17mm

Weight:

352g

Description

In letters addressed to their friends, to members of their family - both biological and chosen - and to fellow storytellers, Akwaeke describes the shape of a life lived in overlapping realities. Through heartbreak, chronic pain, intimacy with death, becoming a beast, this is embodiment as a nonhuman: outside the boundaries imposed by expectations and legibility. This book is an account of the grueling work of realignment and remaking necessary to carve out a future for oneself.

The result is a black spirit memoir: a powerful, raw unfolding of identity.

Author Bio

Akwaeke Emezi is a writer and video artist based in liminal spaces. A 2018 National Book Foundation '5 Under 35' honoree, their debut novel Freshwater was longlisted for both the Women's Prize for Fiction and for the Wellcome Book Prize. It was also a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award, the Center for Fiction's First Novel Prize, a Lambda Literary Award, and the New York Public Library's Young Lions Award, among others. Their first novel for young adults, Pet, was a finalist for the National Book Award for Young People's Literature. Emezi's most recent novel, The Death of Vivek Oji was a New York Times bestseller on publication in 2020. Emezi's writing has appeared in T: The New York Times Style Magazine, BuzzFeed and The Cut, among other publications.

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