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Country of Origin
United States
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Type
Memoir
Book Series
N/A
Narrative Type
Nonfiction
Features
Dust Jacket
Original Language
English
Intended Audience
Adults
Edition
N/A
ISBN
9780593329191
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Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0593329198
ISBN-13
9780593329191
eBay Product ID (ePID)
26050082246

Product Key Features

Book Title
Dear Senthuran : a Black Spirit Memoir
Number of Pages
240 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2021
Topic
Women, Letters, Personal Memoirs, Women's Studies, Literary, Lgbt
Genre
Social Science, Biography & Autobiography, Literary Collections
Author
Akwaeke Emezi
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Height
0.9 in
Item Weight
12.4 Oz
Item Length
8.5 in
Item Width
5.7 in

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LCCN
2020-039782
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ADVANCE PRAISE FOR DEAR SENTHURAN : "The writing is gorgeous and evocative, but it's their unwavering self-belief that really inspires. Are they a god? Emezi tells us our opinions on that subject don't matter. One thing is certain though: Their talent is clearly divine." -- BuzzFeed "An insightful inward look at one writer's journey to self-actualization." -- Bustle "Hypnotic and poetic . . . In Dear Senthuran , Emezi generously shares both their wounds and their wisdom, offering aspiring writers and artists fresh inspiration for creating new forms of making, loving and being." -- Bookpage (starred review) "Spellbinding . . . a gorgeous epistolary memoir [with] consistently captivating prose." -- Publishers Weekly "Fiery. . . . a remarkable memoir by a writer who doesn't shy away from sharing their ambitions or their vulnerabilities." -- Booklist "A unique, visceral memoir. . . . Tribal spiritual beliefs meet contemporary literary acclaim in a powerful memoir." -- Kirkus "An intimate, disarming diary of transcendence, of wielding magic hidden deep within the marrow of our bones, and the spells we cast when we obey the work of honoring the unpretty truths of one's beginnings, Dear Senthuran is a swan song of survival written for survivors everywhere." --Paperback Paris PRAISE FOR AKWAEKE EMEZI: "[One] of our greatest living writers." --Shondaland "Akwaeke Emezi parts the seas of the self." --Vanity Fair "Remarkably assured and graceful . . . encourage[s] us to embrace a fuller spectrum of human experience." -- The Washington Post "Emezi has a gift for prose that is often as visceral, tender and heartbreaking as what it describes" -- The Guardian "Extraordinarily powerful." --The New Yorker "Dazzling." -- Los Angeles Times "A beacon of literary genius." --Lambda Literary Review "Name a writer more essential to the recent landscape of contemporary fiction--and more prolific--than Akwaeke Emezi has been over the last five years. . . . I'll wait." --Harper's Bazaar, ADVANCE PRAISE FOR DEAR SENTHURAN : "The writing is gorgeous and evocative, but it's their unwavering self-belief that really inspires. Are they a god? Emezi tells us our opinions on that subject don't matter. One thing is certain though: Their talent is clearly divine." -- BuzzFeed "Hypnotic and poetic . . . In Dear Senthuran , Emezi generously shares both their wounds and their wisdom, offering aspiring writers and artists fresh inspiration for creating new forms of making, loving and being." -- Bookpage (starred review) "Spellbinding . . . a gorgeous epistolary memoir [with] consistently captivating prose." -- Publishers Weekly "Fiery. . . . a remarkable memoir by a writer who doesn't shy away from sharing their ambitions or their vulnerabilities." -- Booklist "A unique, visceral memoir. . . . Tribal spiritual beliefs meet contemporary literary acclaim in a powerful memoir." -- Kirkus "An intimate, disarming diary of transcendence, of wielding magic hidden deep within the marrow of our bones, and the spells we cast when we obey the work of honoring the unpretty truths of one's beginnings, Dear Senthuran is a swan song of survival written for survivors everywhere." --Paperback Paris PRAISE FOR AKWAEKE EMEZI: "[One] of our greatest living writers." --Shondaland "Akwaeke Emezi parts the seas of the self." --Vanity Fair "Remarkably assured and graceful . . . encourage[s] us to embrace a fuller spectrum of human experience." -- The Washington Post "Emezi has a gift for prose that is often as visceral, tender and heartbreaking as what it describes" -- The Guardian "Extraordinarily powerful." --The New Yorker "Dazzling." -- Los Angeles Times "A beacon of literary genius." --Lambda Literary Review "Name a writer more essential to the recent landscape of contemporary fiction--and more prolific--than Akwaeke Emezi has been over the last five years. . . . I'll wait." --Harper's Bazaar, ADVANCE PRAISE FOR DEAR SENTHURAN : "Fiery. . . . a remarkable memoir by a writer who doesn't shy away from sharing their ambitions or their vulnerabilities." -- Booklist "A unique, visceral memoir. . . . Tribal spiritual beliefs meet contemporary literary acclaim in a powerful memoir." -- Kirkus "An intimate, disarming diary of transcendence, of wielding magic hidden deep within the marrow of our bones, and the spells we cast when we obey the work of honoring the unpretty truths of one's beginnings, Dear Senthuran is a swan song of survival written for survivors everywhere." --Paperback Paris PRAISE FOR AKWAEKE EMEZI: "[One] of our greatest living writers." --Shondaland "Akwaeke Emezi parts the seas of the self." --Vanity Fair "Remarkably assured and graceful . . . encourage[s] us to embrace a fuller spectrum of human experience." -- The Washington Post "Emezi has a gift for prose that is often as visceral, tender and heartbreaking as what it describes" -- The Guardian "Extraordinarily powerful." --The New Yorker "Dazzling." -- Los Angeles Times "A beacon of literary genius." --Lambda Literary Review "Name a writer more essential to the recent landscape of contemporary fiction--and more prolific--than Akwaeke Emezi has been over the last five years. . . . I'll wait." --Harper's Bazaar, ADVANCE PRAISE FOR DEAR SENTHURAN : "The writing is gorgeous and evocative, but it's their unwavering self-belief that really inspires. Are they a god? Emezi tells us our opinions on that subject don't matter. One thing is certain though: Their talent is clearly divine." -- BuzzFeed "Fiery and diamond-hard, written by a once-in-a-generation voice." -- Vulture "An insightful inward look at one writer's journey to self-actualization." -- Bustle "A memoir in letters, to various friends, lovers and family in Emezi's life. . . . It's like no memoir I've ever read before--in the best possible way." -- Alma "Hypnotic and poetic . . . In Dear Senthuran , Emezi generously shares both their wounds and their wisdom, offering aspiring writers and artists fresh inspiration for creating new forms of making, loving and being." -- Bookpage (starred review) "Spellbinding . . . a gorgeous epistolary memoir [with] consistently captivating prose." -- Publishers Weekly "Fiery. . . . a remarkable memoir by a writer who doesn't shy away from sharing their ambitions or their vulnerabilities." -- Booklist "A unique, visceral memoir. . . . Tribal spiritual beliefs meet contemporary literary acclaim in a powerful memoir." -- Kirkus "An intimate, disarming diary of transcendence, of wielding magic hidden deep within the marrow of our bones, and the spells we cast when we obey the work of honoring the unpretty truths of one's beginnings, Dear Senthuran is a swan song of survival written for survivors everywhere." --Paperback Paris PRAISE FOR AKWAEKE EMEZI: "[One] of our greatest living writers." --Shondaland "Akwaeke Emezi parts the seas of the self." --Vanity Fair "Remarkably assured and graceful . . . encourage[s] us to embrace a fuller spectrum of human experience." -- The Washington Post "Emezi has a gift for prose that is often as visceral, tender and heartbreaking as what it describes" -- The Guardian "Extraordinarily powerful." --The New Yorker "Dazzling." -- Los Angeles Times "A beacon of literary genius." --Lambda Literary Review "Name a writer more essential to the recent landscape of contemporary fiction--and more prolific--than Akwaeke Emezi has been over the last five years. . . . I'll wait." --Harper's Bazaar, Praise for Akwaeke Emezi: "Dazzling." --Los Angeles Times "Extraordinarily powerful." -- Edwidge Danticat, The New Yorker "Name a writer more essential to the recent landscape of contemporary fiction--and more prolific--than Akwaeke Emezi has been over the last five years. . . I'll wait." --Harper's Bazaar "Remarkable and daring." -- The New York Times Book Review "The arrival of a major talent." -- San Francisco Chronicle "Akwaeke Emezi parts the seas of the self." -- Vanity Fair "Like watching the beginning of something big." -- Vox, ADVANCE PRAISE FOR DEAR SENTHURAN : "A thing of great beauty . . . Dear Senthuran is about powerful excellence, especially the excellence that appears in bodies that aren't white and aren't male. Emezi is changing the world and our reaction to this kind of power." -- The Paris Review "Unlike anything I've read. There are many magnificent parts where the language, the insight, the writing are simply unparalleled. They also are fearlessly open about identity, success, human frailty, mental health, destructive decisions that are sometimes necessary to achieve a greater goal. [And] they are remarkably clear- eyed about the best and worst parts of themselves. . . . This is a remarkable memoir and really expands possibilities for the genre." -- Roxane Gay, author of Bad Feminist "The writing is gorgeous and evocative, but it's their unwavering self-belief that really inspires. Are they a god? Emezi tells us our opinions on that subject don't matter. One thing is certain though: Their talent is clearly divine." -- BuzzFeed "Fiery and diamond-hard, written by a once-in-a-generation voice." -- Vulture "A must-read memoir about creativity and identity." -- Bustle "A memoir in letters, to various friends, lovers and family in Emezi's life. . . . It's like no memoir I've ever read before--in the best possible way." -- Alma "Hypnotic and poetic . . . In Dear Senthuran , Emezi generously shares both their wounds and their wisdom, offering aspiring writers and artists fresh inspiration for creating new forms of making, loving and being." -- Bookpage (starred review) "Spellbinding . . . a gorgeous epistolary memoir [with] consistently captivating prose." -- Publishers Weekly "Fiery. . . . a remarkable memoir by a writer who doesn't shy away from sharing their ambitions or their vulnerabilities." -- Booklist "A unique, visceral memoir. . . . Tribal spiritual beliefs meet contemporary literary acclaim in a powerful memoir." -- Kirkus "An intimate, disarming diary of transcendence, of wielding magic hidden deep within the marrow of our bones, and the spells we cast when we obey the work of honoring the unpretty truths of one's beginnings, Dear Senthuran is a swan song of survival written for survivors everywhere." --Paperback Paris PRAISE FOR AKWAEKE EMEZI: "[One] of our greatest living writers." --Shondaland "Akwaeke Emezi parts the seas of the self." --Vanity Fair "Remarkably assured and graceful . . . encourage[s] us to embrace a fuller spectrum of human experience." -- The Washington Post "Emezi has a gift for prose that is often as visceral, tender and heartbreaking as what it describes" -- The Guardian "Extraordinarily powerful." --The New Yorker "Dazzling." -- Los Angeles Times "A beacon of literary genius." --Lambda Literary Review "Name a writer more essential to the recent landscape of contemporary fiction--and more prolific--than Akwaeke Emezi has been over the last five years. . . . I'll wait." --Harper's Bazaar, ADVANCE PRAISE FOR DEAR SENTHURAN : "The writing is gorgeous and evocative, but it's their unwavering self-belief that really inspires. Are they a god? Emezi tells us our opinions on that subject don't matter. One thing is certain though: Their talent is clearly divine." -- BuzzFeed "Hypnotic and poetic . . . In Dear Senthuran , Emezi generously shares both their wounds and their wisdom, offering aspiring writers and artists fresh inspiration for creating new forms of making, loving and being." -- Bookpage (starred review) "Fiery. . . . a remarkable memoir by a writer who doesn't shy away from sharing their ambitions or their vulnerabilities." -- Booklist "A unique, visceral memoir. . . . Tribal spiritual beliefs meet contemporary literary acclaim in a powerful memoir." -- Kirkus "An intimate, disarming diary of transcendence, of wielding magic hidden deep within the marrow of our bones, and the spells we cast when we obey the work of honoring the unpretty truths of one's beginnings, Dear Senthuran is a swan song of survival written for survivors everywhere." --Paperback Paris PRAISE FOR AKWAEKE EMEZI: "[One] of our greatest living writers." --Shondaland "Akwaeke Emezi parts the seas of the self." --Vanity Fair "Remarkably assured and graceful . . . encourage[s] us to embrace a fuller spectrum of human experience." -- The Washington Post "Emezi has a gift for prose that is often as visceral, tender and heartbreaking as what it describes" -- The Guardian "Extraordinarily powerful." --The New Yorker "Dazzling." -- Los Angeles Times "A beacon of literary genius." --Lambda Literary Review "Name a writer more essential to the recent landscape of contemporary fiction--and more prolific--than Akwaeke Emezi has been over the last five years. . . . I'll wait." --Harper's Bazaar, ADVANCE PRAISE FOR DEAR SENTHURAN : "Hypnotic and poetic . . . In Dear Senthuran , Emezi generously shares both their wounds and their wisdom, offering aspiring writers and artists fresh inspiration for creating new forms of making, loving and being." -- Bookpage (starred review) "Fiery. . . . a remarkable memoir by a writer who doesn't shy away from sharing their ambitions or their vulnerabilities." -- Booklist "A unique, visceral memoir. . . . Tribal spiritual beliefs meet contemporary literary acclaim in a powerful memoir." -- Kirkus "An intimate, disarming diary of transcendence, of wielding magic hidden deep within the marrow of our bones, and the spells we cast when we obey the work of honoring the unpretty truths of one's beginnings, Dear Senthuran is a swan song of survival written for survivors everywhere." --Paperback Paris PRAISE FOR AKWAEKE EMEZI: "[One] of our greatest living writers." --Shondaland "Akwaeke Emezi parts the seas of the self." --Vanity Fair "Remarkably assured and graceful . . . encourage[s] us to embrace a fuller spectrum of human experience." -- The Washington Post "Emezi has a gift for prose that is often as visceral, tender and heartbreaking as what it describes" -- The Guardian "Extraordinarily powerful." --The New Yorker "Dazzling." -- Los Angeles Times "A beacon of literary genius." --Lambda Literary Review "Name a writer more essential to the recent landscape of contemporary fiction--and more prolific--than Akwaeke Emezi has been over the last five years. . . . I'll wait." --Harper's Bazaar
Dewey Edition
23
Dewey Decimal
823.92
Synopsis
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." - Shondaland A 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., 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." - Shondaland A 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.
LC Classification Number
PR9387.9.E42Z46 2021

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