Dear Senthuran: A Black Spirit Memoir (Pre-Owned Paperback 9780593329207) by Akwaeke Emezi

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9780593329207. Very good condition. Trade paperback. Language: English. Pages: 240. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 240 p. FEATURED ON THE COVER OF TIME MAGAZINE AS A 2021 NEXT GENERATION LEADER A once-in-a-generation voice. - Vulture One of our greatest living writers. - Shondaland A full-throated and provocative memoir in letters from the New York Times bestselling author a dazzling literary talent whose works cut to the quick of the spiritual self (Esquire) In three critically acclaimed novels Akwaeke Emezi has introduced readers to a landscape marked by familial tensions Igbo belief systems and a boundless search for what it means to be free. Now in this extraordinary memoir the bestselling author of The Death of Vivek Oji reveals the harrowing yet resolute truths of their own life. Through candid intimate correspondence with friends lovers and family Emezi traces the unfolding of a self and the unforgettable journey of a creative spirit stepping into power in the human world. Their story weaves through transformative decisions about their gender and body their precipitous path to success as a writer and the turmoil of relationships on an emotional romantic and spiritual plane culminating in a book that is as tender as it is brutal. Electrifying and inspiring animated by the same voracious intelligence that distinguishes Emezi s fiction Dear Senthuran is a revelatory account of storytelling self and survival.