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520 a| An extraordinary debut novel, Freshwater explores the surreal experience of having a fractured self. It centers around a young Nigerian woman, Ada, who develops separate selves within her as a result of being born "with one foot on the other side." Unsettling, heartwrenching, dark, and powerful, Freshwater is a sharp evocation of a rare way of experiencing the world, one that illuminates how we all construct our identities. Ada begins her life in the south of Nigeria as a troubled baby and a source of deep concern to her family. Her parents, Saul and Saachi, successfully prayed her into existence, but as she grows into a volatile and splintered child, it becomes clear that something went terribly awry. When Ada comes of age and moves to America for college, the group of selves within her grows in power and agency. A traumatic assault leads to a crystallization of her alternate selves: Asụghara and Saint Vincent. As Ada fades into the background of her own mind and these selves, now protective, now hedonistic, move into control, Ada's life spirals in a dark and dangerous direction. Narrated from the perspective of the various selves within Ada, and based in the author's realities, Freshwater explores the metaphysics of identity and mental health, plunging the reader into the mystery of being and self.;

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Freshwater / Akwaeke Emezi.

Author/creator	Emezi, Akwaeke author.
Format	Book
Edition	First edition.
Publication	New York : Grove Press, 2018.
Copyright Date	©2018
Description	229 pages ; 22 cm
Subjects	Women--Nigeria. --Fiction. Identity (Psychology)--Fiction. Mental illness--Fiction.

Abstract	An extraordinary debut novel, Freshwater explores the surreal experience of having a fractured self. It centers around a young Nigerian woman, Ada, who develops separate selves within her as a result of being born "with one foot on the other side." Unsettling, heartwrenching, dark, and powerful, Freshwater is a sharp evocation of a rare way of experiencing the world, one that illuminates how we all construct our identities. Ada begins her life in the south of Nigeria as a troubled baby and a source of deep concern to her family. Her parents, Saul and Saachi, successfully prayed her into existence, but as she grows into a volatile and splintered child, it becomes clear that something went terribly awry. When Ada comes of age and moves to America for college, the group of selves within her grows in power and agency. A traumatic assault leads to a crystallization of her alternate selves: Asụghara and Saint Vincent. As Ada fades into the background of her own mind and these selves, now protective, now hedonistic, move into control, Ada's life spirals in a dark and dangerous direction. Narrated from the perspective of the various selves within Ada, and based in the author's realities, Freshwater explores the metaphysics of identity and mental health, plunging the reader into the mystery of being and self.
Issued in other form	Online version: Emezi, Akwaeke. Freshwater. First hardcover edition. New York : Groove Press, [2017] 9780802165565
Genre/form	Autobiographical fiction.
Genre/form	Fiction.
Genre/form	Autobiographical fiction.
Genre/form	Autobiographical fiction.
LCCN	2017028925
ISBN	9780802127358 (hardcover)
ISBN	0802127355 (hardcover)
ISBN	9780802128997 (paperback)
ISBN	0802128998 (paperback)
ISBN	9780571347216
ISBN	0571347215
Standard identifier#	40027982925

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