![]() ![]() However, there’s a certain vulnerability and rebellion whenever an author flips the script on their readership. ![]() It’s light, optimistic and fun while maintaining a significant throughline of lyricism and drama. The novel takes Emezi in multiple new directions. ![]() Read our starred review of ‘You Made a Fool of Death With Your Beauty.’ As Feyi becomes romantically entangled with a man named Nasir and then with his father, a celebrity chef named Alim, she discovers the kind of healing she needs. The novel follows Nigerian American artist Feyi Adekola, who’s restarting her life in Brooklyn five years after the death of her husband. But while those earlier books possess what Emezi calls “a quality of the other” or “a separateness,” the author’s first romance reflects a different voice-one that is truer to their own story of love and heartbreak when they were a 20-something in New York City. Like Emezi’s debut, Freshwater (2018), and their acclaimed, bestselling novel The Death of Vivek Oji (2020), You Made a Fool of Death With Your Beauty is a bold work of art. The differences between the prize-winning writer’s first romance novel and their previous work go beyond genre boundaries and readers’ expectations. Akwaeke Emezi is known for their literary flexibility, having already displayed a mastery of fiction, poetry and memoir, but You Made a Fool of Death With Your Beauty is a shock to the system in more ways than one. ![]()
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