FEATURED ON THE COVER OF TIME MAGAZINE AS A 2021 NEXT GENERATION LEADER A once-in-a-generation
voice. Vulture One of our greatest living writers. ShondalandA full-throated and provocative
memoir in letters from the New York Times bestselling author a dazzling literary talent whose
works cut to the quick of the spiritual self (Esquire) In three critically acclaimed novels
Akwaeke Emezi has introduced readers to a landscape marked by familial tensions Igbo belief
systems and a boundless search for what it means to be free. Now in this extraordinary memoir
the bestselling author of The Death of Vivek Oji reveals the harrowing yet resolute truths of
their own life. Through candid intimate correspondence with friends lovers and family Emezi
traces the unfolding of a self and the unforgettable journey of a creative spirit stepping into
power in the human world. Their story weaves through transformative decisions about their
gender and body their precipitous path to success as a writer and the turmoil of
relationships on an emotional romantic and spiritual plane culminating in a book that is as
tender as it is brutal. Electrifying and inspiring animated by the same voracious intelligence
that distinguishes Emezi's fiction Dear Senthuran is a revelatory account of storytelling
self and survival.
