Emezi’s ability to immerse the reader into multiple characters’ realities and tell a story that isn’t just one narrative but infinite is reminiscent of Toni Morrison, even as Emezi creates…
Whether she’s writing about Gantt charts or economic turmoil or oysters or blue and green or sex or hunger, Sarah Thankam Mathews’ sentences seduce and swathe.
An epistolary lesbian love story, monster horror, final girl thrills, and sharp commentary on reality television and social media collide in this bloody, hilarious, chilling novel.
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