LBB Book Club: Well-Read Black Girl discusses Freshwater
Schedule
Mon Jul 22 2024 at 05:00 pm
UTC-05:00Location
Left Bank Books | St. Louis, MO
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This book group will be meeting in-store. A virtual option is still available: EMAIL [email protected] for virtual meeting link.Join the Well-Read Black Girl for a discussion of Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi.
Get Freshwater for 20% off in-store and online during the months of June and July!
https://www.left-bank.com/book/9780802128997
A National Book Foundation "5 Under 35" Honoree
Finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award for a Debut Novel
Shortlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize
A New York Times Notable Book
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. Young Ada is troubled, prone to violent fits. Born "with one foot on the other side," she begins to develop separate selves within her as she grows into adulthood. 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. Written with stylistic brilliance and based in the author's realities, Freshwater dazzles with ferocious energy and serpentine grace.
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Where is it happening?
Left Bank Books, 391 N Euclid Ave, St Louis, MO 63108-1245, United States,St. Louis, MissouriEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
