Freshwater

Title: Freshwater
Author: Akwaeke Emezi
ISBN: 9780802127358
Publisher: Grove Press
Published: 2018
Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Condition: Used: Near Fine
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Publisher Description:
A National Book Foundation "5 Under 35" Honoree

Finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award for a Debut Novel

Shortlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize

A New York Times Notable Book

"An extraordinarily powerful and very different kind of physical and psychological migration story."--Edwidge Danticat, New Yorker

The astonishing debut novel from the acclaimed bestselling author of The Death of Vivek Oji, You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty, and Pet, Freshwater tells the story of Ada, an unusual child who is a source of deep concern to her southern Nigerian family. Young Ada is troubled, prone to violent fits. Born "with one foot on the other side," she begins to develop separate selves within her as she grows into adulthood. And when she travels to America for college, a traumatic event on campus crystallizes the selves into something powerful and potentially dangerous, making Ada fade into the background of her own mind as these alters--now protective, now hedonistic--move into control. Written with stylistic brilliance and based in the author's realities, Freshwater dazzles with ferocious energy and serpentine grace.