![]() ![]() ![]() This radical choice in perspective demands that the reader, rather than interpreting them as the imaginary manifestations of a troubled girl, accepts their presence as a reality. These entities plot and scheme from within her, influence her actions, strategize to protect her and act as bemused witnesses to Ada’s human concerns. The narrative alternates between a collective “we” and singular spirits who appear over the course of her life, especially Asughara who first materializes around the time of Ada’s puberty. As such, she doesn’t exist as a singular individual, but as a plurality of selves encased within one being.Īda’s life is plotted out from birth to young adulthood, rendered by the many spirits who reside inside her. Ada, the daughter of Saul, a Nigerian Catholic doctor, and Saachi, a Malaysian nurse, is an ogbanje, a child spirit destined to be born and die multiple times and a child of Ala, an Igbo deity. ![]() The bold premise of Akwaeke Emezi’s debut novel is that it is primarily narrated not by Ada - the girl whose coming-of-age tale is at this novel’s centre - but from the perspective of multiple deities and cosmic forces that inhabit her. ![]()
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