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Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi
5.0

I found this book to be challenging in all the best ways. The word choice is so good, it really makes you feel like you're reading something that's not of this world, so at times it feels almost disturbing - in the way that reality is disturbing.

That the book confronts the ideas of
Spoilerwhat it means to be religious, to be faithful, to be mentally ill, or a fractured spirit - and then never really answers it in a way that makes any one way wrong, is so skillful that it took me an hour to even process my feelings. Ada is goddess, literally, figuratively - she is power and I love her.


Definitely would read again in the future.