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Absolutely spellbound. Thank you.
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I read this book a second time, and it’s some incredible storytelling. For the author & ada to have experienced traumas & pains, and to witness the crystallization of selves… As a reader, I feel immersed in how the ogbanje in ada, asughara, & saint vincent experience their place in the world, to be one collective and plural self. We are witnessing the empowerment & growing acceptance/love between and for their selves to coexist in one body.
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Edit:
I read this book a second time, and it’s some incredible storytelling. For the author & ada to have experienced traumas & pains, and to witness the crystallization of selves… As a reader, I feel immersed in how the ogbanje in ada, asughara, & saint vincent experience their place in the world, to be one collective and plural self. We are witnessing the empowerment & growing acceptance/love between and for their selves to coexist in one body.
Akwaeke Emezi has ...more
Amazing and grotesque! Traumatizing and yet a story about realizing yourself and the things you need to survive. I don't want to summarize this book, I want to sit with its wholeness and remember it.
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Jul 13, 2020
aloe
marked it as to-read
Oct 02, 2021
Ishanavi Bajpai
marked it as book-club
