For the Ada, this song begins as part of her homesickness when she arrives in the US, but it also bonds her and Soren, another international student, and that catalyzes some rather brutal things later on. I remember listening to it as a teenager in Nigeria and back then, there was no world in which I could have predicted that I’d end up having to clear the copyright for that song because I used it in my book. When I held the finished copy of my book in my hands for the first time, one of the things that struck me the most was the copyright page, where this song is mentioned. I find that making a playlist for it, like writing it, rather echoes that experience. In her own words, here is Akwaeke Emezi's Book Notes music playlist for her debut novel Freshwater:įreshwater is a book about multiple realities existing at the same time, disjoint and dissociating worlds, clashing in their overlap. It causes us to question science and reason." Rooting Ada's story in Igbo cosmology forces us to further question our paradigm for what causes mental illness and how it manifests. Boyle, Dana Spiotta, Amy Bloom, Aimee Bender, Heidi Julavits, Hari Kunzru, and many others.Īkwaeke Emezi's novel Freshwater is one of the strongest debuts I have read in years, an innovatively told and engrossing book. Previous contributors include Jesmyn Ward, Bret Easton Ellis, Celeste Ng, Lauren Groff, T.C. In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book.
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