…The novel is autobiographical, so I used my life as a chronological skeleton for the story, which meant revisiting a lot of things that were immense… - Akwaeke Emezi

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…The novel is autobiographical, so I used my life as a chronological skeleton for the story, which meant revisiting a lot of things that were immensely painful. It was also a process of discovery – I had no outline for Freshwater, no idea how it was going to take shape, but it built itself as I was writing it.