Winner · Otherwise Award 2019
Freshwater
2018 novel by Akwaeke Emezi
Both a recounting of trauma and its impacts, as well as a retelling of a Nigerian fable. The main character's multiple experiences of trauma are retold and the author unflinchingly explores how they are impacted (e.g., self-harm, dissociation). The character's psychology is viewed through a non-Western lens.
Synopsis from Open Library.
- Language
- English
- Genre
- fiction
- Pages
- 240
- ISBN
- 9789785559712
- Subjects
- Women, Non-binary people, trauma, Identity (Psychology), Fiction, Fiction, biographical, Nigeria, fiction, Fiction, women
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