“I always feel alone,” Feyi tells a friend, and she knows Alim does, too. The two recognize each other as fellow grievers - then, against both their wills, as potentially much more. She also meets Nasir’s father, Alim, an eminent chef with an enduring sorrow of his own. Nasir takes Feyi to his family’s opulent house on a Caribbean island, where she stays as his guest while installing her exhibit.
Backing off on proposing romance, Nasir instead puts Feyi in touch with a prominent curator who wants to feature her work in an upcoming group show. Nasir is enthralled with Feyi Feyi wants to take things slowly. She has sex with him for a few months, then stops, eventually ending up in an ambiguous relationship with Nasir, his friend. In 2018, they published their debut novel, the powerful “Freshwater” since then, in a scant four years, they’ve written books in multiple genres - fiction, nonfiction, poetry and young adult - and now, with “You Made a Fool of Death With Your Beauty,” romance.įeyi succeeds in this mission with a stranger from the rooftop. How, then, to live? This is a question at the heart of Akwaeke Emezi’s rousing, celebratory new novel, “You Made a Fool of Death With Your Beauty.”Įmezi, for anyone new to their work, is a writer of startling versatility and speed.
It is entirely possible to continue grieving for what is gone for years, decades, a lifetime. Whether or not everyone would agree with that suspicion, the United States, along with the rest of the world, is living through a time of more loss than usual, and for some grievers, myself included, mourning hasn’t occurred in tidily named stages, nor has it meaningfully eased with time. YOU MADE A FOOL OF DEATH WITH YOUR BEAUTY, by Akwaeke EmeziĮvery now and then, in my more low-spirited moments, I find myself suspecting that I know of no country more ill equipped for grieving, no society less capable of making space for the depths and complexities of life-changing sorrow, than the United States.
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