The Resource Freshwater, Akwaeke Emezi
Freshwater, Akwaeke Emezi
Resource Information
The item Freshwater, Akwaeke Emezi represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Washington County Cooperative Library Services.This item is available to borrow from 9 library branches.
Resource Information
The item Freshwater, Akwaeke Emezi represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Washington County Cooperative Library Services.
This item is available to borrow from 9 library branches.
- Summary
- 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. Freshwater dazzles with ferocious energy and serpentine grace, heralding the arrival of a fierce new literary voice
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First hardcover edition.
- Extent
- 229 pages
- Isbn
- 9780802127358
- Label
- Freshwater
- Title
- Freshwater
- Statement of responsibility
- Akwaeke Emezi
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- 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. Freshwater dazzles with ferocious energy and serpentine grace, heralding the arrival of a fierce new literary voice
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Emezi, Akwaeke
- Dewey number
- 823/.92
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PR9387.9.E42
- LC item number
- F74 2018
- Literary form
- fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Women
- Identity (Psychology)
- Identity (Psychology)
- Women
- Nigeria
- Label
- Freshwater, Akwaeke Emezi
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
- 22 cm.
- Edition
- First hardcover edition.
- Extent
- 229 pages
- Isbn
- 9780802127358
- Lccn
- 2017028925
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- System control number
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- (OCoLC)990286953
- (OCoLC)ocn990286953
- 3100477
- Label
- Freshwater, Akwaeke Emezi
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
- 22 cm.
- Edition
- First hardcover edition.
- Extent
- 229 pages
- Isbn
- 9780802127358
- Lccn
- 2017028925
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- System control number
-
- (OCoLC)990286953
- (OCoLC)ocn990286953
- 3100477
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