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Akwaeke Emezi

Little Rot

By Akwaeke Emezi

It’s hard to think of another current author with Akwaeke Emezi’s genre-disrupting range. After following up their bestselling literary novel The Death of Vivek Oji with the gorgeous romance You Made a Fool of Death With Your Beauty, Emezi is pivoting again, this time in a darker direction. Following five friends over the course of one chaotic, devastating weekend, the thrilling Little Rot is sure to be a page turner, and we can’t wait.

It’s hard to think of another current author with Akwaeke Emezi’s genre-disrupting range. After following up their bestselling literary novel The Death of Vivek Oji with the gorgeous romance You Made a Fool of Death With Your Beauty, Emezi is pivoting again, this time in a darker direction. Following five friends over the course of […]

You Made a Fool of Death With Your Beauty

By Akwaeke Emezi

Akwaeke Emezi’s first romance novel, You Made a Fool of Death With Your Beauty, is a hot and sultry read. As she told us, “It’s not a literary novel pretending to be a romance. Like, no, I wrote it for the genre.”

Akwaeke Emezi’s first romance novel, You Made a Fool of Death With Your Beauty, is a hot and sultry read. As she told us, “It’s not a literary novel pretending to be a romance. Like, no, I wrote it for the genre.”

Content Warning: Everything

By Akwaeke Emezi

Akwaeke Emezi shifts effortlessly into the mode of poet, exploring spirituality and loss in ways that feel fertile and new.

Akwaeke Emezi shifts effortlessly into the mode of poet, exploring spirituality and loss in ways that feel fertile and new.

Dear Senthuran

By Akwaeke Emezi

In Dear Senthuran, Akwaeke Emezi explodes human limitations by insisting on the imagination’s power to create worlds.

In Dear Senthuran, Akwaeke Emezi explodes human limitations by insisting on the imagination’s power to create worlds.

The Death of Vivek Oji

By Akwaeke Emezi

It takes a village to raise a child. But as Akwaeke Emezi implies in this novel, it takes a culture and its mythologies to erase a child.

It takes a village to raise a child. But as Akwaeke Emezi implies in this novel, it takes a culture and its mythologies to erase a child.

Pet

By Akwaeke Emezi

Akwaeke Emezi, the acclaimed author of last year’s buzzy Freshwater, further asserts themself as a unique, bold new voice with the surreal Pet.

Akwaeke Emezi, the acclaimed author of last year’s buzzy Freshwater, further asserts themself as a unique, bold new voice with the surreal Pet.

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