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Akwaeke Emezi
Akwaeke Emezi is the Nigerian-American novelist behind Freshwater (2018), The Death of Vivek Oji (2020), You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty (2022), and the YA novels Pet (2019) and Bitter (2022). Emezi is one of the canonical contemporary Nigerian-American literary novelists and works across literary fiction, YA, and the broader contemporary American literary tradition.
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Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi 2018 review. A young Nigerian woman is inhabited by Igbo ogbanje spirits who narrate her coming-of-age. Emezi's debut.
The Death of Vivek Oji by Akwaeke Emezi 2020 review. Vivek Oji is found dead on his mother's doorstep in 1990s Nigeria. Emezi's second novel.
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