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The spirit’s perspective is so evocative. The way Akwaeke takes something like anger or jealousy and turns it into these vivid physical images is just 🤌🏾. It makes the spiritual side of the story feel so much more real and gives the whole thing so much texture!

"Our brothersisters have always possessed the cruelty that is our birthright. They stacked their bitterness like a year's harvest; they bound it all together with anger, long memories, and petty ways."

I'm already sucked in. Learning about traditional Igbo spirituality, and it has the nerve to be interesting.