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Dear Senthuran

A Black spirit memoir

Akwaeke Emezi author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Faber & Faber

Published:21st Jul '22

£10.99

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A raw exploration of identity that shatters boundaries and explodes the way we think about the idea of the self

'Unlike anything I've read . 'New York Times

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.

'Unlike anything I've read . . . Remarkable.' Roxane Gay

'An audacious sojourn through the terror and beauty of refusing to explain yourself. 'New York Times

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.

ISBN: 9780571366163

Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 14mm

Weight: 202g

240 pages

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