Emezi has combined Maya Angelou's passion and Sylvia Plath's devastating self-inquisition to create an edgy music that frightens and astonishes

GUARDIAN

A powerful debut poetry collection

MARIA CRAWFORD, FINANCIAL TIMES, Best summer books of 2023

A multi-genre pheonomena, it's a triumph of a creative mind

GLAMOUR

Emezi's work is deeply magical, it is stunningly selective, making you feel so much with so little

SNACK MAGAZINE

A triumph of selfhood that painstakingly journeys between belief and becoming. Holding tenderness and rage in one breath, the Nigerian-born nonbinary author excavates trauma, divorce and loss without restraint ... Illuminates a complicated past, expels antiquated what-ifs and allows readers to share in the possibilities underscored by a wholly original and creative mind

NEW YORK TIMES

A bold debut collection delving into Blackness, trauma, sexuality and the divine from the author of The Death of Vivek Oji

GUARDIAN, Best books of 2023