Dear Senthuran

A Black Spirit Memoir

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Dear Senthuran

By: Akwaeke Emezi

Narrated by: Akwaeke Emezi

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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.

Akwaeke EmeziAkwaeke EmeziFaber & Faber

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Stonewall Book Award

2022

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Cultural & Regional

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It's what you'd expect from a "god"; bold, braggadocious, vulnerable, and morbid, delivered in beautiful language.

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