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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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2018-2020
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Freshwater
by Akwaeke Emezi
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
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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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.