I love me some good magical realism, as nebulous a genre as that is and this definitely falls into the “good” category. Unfortunately not as memorable as I’d like it to be, though I did read this at an interesting time (big family gathering + sad memorial service = not a lot of brain space for books). Freshwater centers on a young Nigerian woman named Ada though in this story, even in her own body, she is not the sole protagonist. Emezi has given voice […]