![]() The book has been received beautifully so far, though, and that’s because it is beautiful. Not many Americans are exposed to that, and so she thought not many would embrace it. It’s an internal experience that uses traditional Igbo religion as its lens. It’s not about the “immigrant experience,” nor does it look like what other popular African writers have done before her. In a recent piece for BuzzFeed, Emezi ruminates on doubts she held that the novel would even have a future. I’m not particularly good at surrendering to unknowns.” You can’t predict anything, you have to surrender to a lot of unknowns. “It’s one of those things where it’s uncharted territory for me. When I ask whether she thinks the hurt will fade or increase once Freshwater is available for public consumption, she’s unsure. “It's weird to have this goal in your life that you look forward to, and you think it's going to be this magical ‘all my dreams are coming true!’ moment, and really, it's… it's that, but it's also very difficult and it hurts.” She laughs and continues, “Which was unexpected.” ![]() “It’s been a lot more stressful than I would’ve anticipated,” she tells me. When I speak with writer Akwaeke Emezi, it’s less than a week before her debut novel, Freshwater, comes out. ![]()
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