Written with stylistic brilliance and based in the author’s realities, Freshwater dazzles with ferocious energy and serpentine grace. And when she travels to America for college, a traumatic event on campus crystallizes the selves into something powerful and potentially dangerous, making Ada fade into the background of her own mind as these alters-now protective, now hedonistic-move into control. Born “with one foot on the other side,” she begins to develop separate selves within her as she grows into adulthood. Young Ada is troubled, prone to violent fits. The astonishing debut novel from the acclaimed bestselling author of The Death of Vivek Oji, You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty, and Pet, Freshwater tells the story of Ada, an unusual child who is a source of deep concern to her southern Nigerian family. Shortlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize Born in Nigeria, she is occupied by ogbanje, deities who reside in her mind and with. A National Book Foundation “5 Under 35” Honoreeįinalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award for a Debut Novel T he main characters in Freshwater include Ada, Asughara, and Saint Vincent.
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