Unlike anything Ive read . . . Remarkable. Roxane GayAn audacious sojourn through the terror and beauty of refusing to explain yourself. New York TimesIn 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.

Binding: Paperback;240 pages; Publisher: Faber and Faber Ltd; Classification: BM; Weight: 318 g; Dimensions: 128 x 199 x 21

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