Dear Senthuran
2021 memoir by Akwaeke Emezi
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Dear Senthuran: A Black Spirit Memoir is a 2021 memoir written by Nigerian author Akwaeke Emezi. It was first published in 2021 by Riverhead Books in the United States and Faber and Faber in the United Kingdom.[1][2][3]
First edition (US) | |
| Author | Akwaeke Emezi |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Genre | Memoir |
| Publisher | Riverhead Books (US) Faber & Faber (UK) |
| Publication date | June 8, 2021 |
| Publication place | Nigeria |
| Media type | |
| ISBN | 9780593329191 |
| Preceded by | The Death of Vivek Oji |
| Website | Official website |
In 2022, it won the Israel Fishman Nonfiction Stonewall Book Award.[4]
Reception
A writer for The New York Times, Kim Tran, describes the book as “a metaphysical journey told through Igbo cosmology.”[5] Akwaeke Emezi, who grew up in Aba, invites the reader to “imagine being ogbanje, like me.”[6] Shondaland calls the author, “[One] of our greatest living writers.”[7]
"Akwaeke Emezi writes transformative, transfixing letters to themselves in a magnificent reimagining of what a memoir can and should be," Times Magazine, in their 100 must read books of 2021.[8]
"A full-throated and provocative memoir in letters from the New York Times-bestselling author of The Death of Vivek Oji, a dazzling literary talent whose works cut to the quick of the spiritual self," Esquire writes.[9]
