A New York Times Notable Book
One
of the most highly praised novels of the year, the debut from an
astonishing young writer, Freshwater
tells the story of Ada, an unusual child who is a source of deep
concern to her southern Nigerian family. Young Ada is troubled, prone
to violent fits. Born "with one foot on the other side,"
she begins to develop separate selves within her as she grows into
adulthood. And when she travels to America for college, a traumatic
event on campus crystallizes the selves into something powerful and
potentially dangerous, making Ada fade into the background of her own
mind as these alters--now protective, now hedonistic--move into
control. Written with stylistic brilliance and based in the author's
realities, Freshwater
dazzles with ferocious energy and serpentine grace.