Freshwater

By Akwaeke Emezi

Subjects: LGBTQ science fiction & fantasy, Nigeria, fiction, Women, Fiction, women, Non-binary people, Ogbanje, Igbo, LGBTQ gender identity, collection:otherwise_tiptree_award=winner, trauma, FICTION / Literary, New York Times reviewed, Fiction, Identity (Psychology), Fiction, biographical, Mental Disorders

Description: Both a recounting of trauma and its impacts, as well as a retelling of a Nigerian fable. The main character's multiple experiences of trauma are retold and the author unflinchingly explores how they are impacted (e.g., self-harm, dissociation). The character's psychology is viewed through a non-Western lens.