★ ESSENTIAL
Freshwater
Akwaeke Emezi, 2018
CALL NO...: 12-BOO
TYPE......: Book
ACCESS....: SEE BELOW
A young Nigerian woman holds multiple selves inside her, narrated by the ogbanje spirits themselves rather than by a psychiatric diagnosis. A landmark novel that refuses to let Western mental illness frameworks be the only available explanation.
FictionMad PrideIntersectionalityLGBTQ+International
▶ HOW TO ACCESS
Available at most public libraries and from Grove Press.