Emezi, Akwaeke - Dear Senthuran

Dear Senthuran: A Black Spirit Memoir

Author: Akwaeke Emezi

Genre: Memoir, Adult, Non Fiction

Pages: 240

Publisher: Faber & Faber

Release Date: January 1, 2022

Format: Paperback

ISBN: 9780571366163

Synopsis:

'Unlike anything I've read . . . Remarkable.' Roxane Gay

'An audacious sojourn through the terror and beauty of refusing to explain yourself. ' New York Times

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.

LGBT Themes:

• Non Binary
• Transgender

Relevant Tags:

Memoir, Nonfiction, LGBT, Queer, Non Binary, Biography, Memoir, Africa, Nigeria, Transgender, Adult