I couldn’t walk, I couldn’t talk, I couldn’t swallow. I ended up in the emergency room a few months after “Freshwater” came out because I was having severe muscle spasms. And I’m just like, I’m trying not to die, though. In the middle of it, everyone’s just like, your life must be so great, your book is being well received, you’re getting rave reviews. Every single tour got cut short because I became too suicidal to continue.
No one talks about how brutal and exhausting it is. I did not know how stressful it would be. It’s been about a year since “Freshwater.” What has your post-debut novel experience been? And I hope that that’s a useful spell for young people.” Credit. She gets to have adventures with her best friend. “I want to cast a spell where a black trans girl is never hurt,” Akwaeke Emezi said of their Y.A. It’s a pace that’s become a necessary way to cope with the whiplash of newfound success: not just the book deals, but the enthusiastic response to “Freshwater” and a television deal to develop it for FX with their friend and creative partner, Tamara P. That’s why Emezi decided to slow down this year, taking periodic breaks from writing and unwinding with gardening and Netflix baking shows. I stopped writing for pleasure because I was just like, if I’m not getting paid for it, what’s the point?” “I had a little bit of a crisis,” said Emezi, who uses the pronoun they.
The first, “The Death of Vivek Oji,” is expected to come out next year.īut this productivity came at a cost. After “ Freshwater,” Akwaeke Emezi’s critically acclaimed debut novel, came out in 2018, publishers were eager for more from the Nigerian writer.Įmezi, 32, was ready, having already sold “Pet,” a young adult novel, to Make Me a World, a diversity-focused imprint of Penguin Random House, and signing a lucrative two-book deal with Riverhead.
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