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You Made a Fool of Death With Your Beauty Paperback – International Edition, May 25, 2023
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Feyi is about to be given the chance to escape the City's blistering heat for a dream island holiday: poolside cocktails, beach sunsets, and elaborate meals. And as the sun goes down on her old life our heroine also might just be ready to open her heart to someone new.
The only problem is, she's falling for the one man she absolutely can't have.
- Print length320 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherFABER ET FABER
- Publication dateMay 25, 2023
- Dimensions5.08 x 0.75 x 7.8 inches
- ISBN-100571372686
- ISBN-13978-0571372683
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- Publisher : FABER ET FABER; International Edition (May 25, 2023)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 320 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0571372686
- ISBN-13 : 978-0571372683
- Item Weight : 9.2 ounces
- Dimensions : 5.08 x 0.75 x 7.8 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #415,165 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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About the author
Akwaeke Emezi is an artist and writer based in liminal spaces.
Their most recent adult novel THE DEATH OF VIVEK OJI (Riverhead Books) was an Instant New York Times Bestseller, an Indie Bestseller, and an Indie Next selection. A 2018 National Book Foundation '5 Under 35' honoree, Emezi was born in Umuahia and raised in Aba, Nigeria.
Their debut YA novel PET (Make Me a World/RHCB) was a finalist for the 2019 National Book Award for Young People's Literature and a Lambda Literary Award, as well as an Indie Next selection. Praised in The New York Times, it received a Stonewall Honor, a Walter Honor, and an Otherwise Award Honor after debuting with five starred reviews from Kirkus, Publishers Weekly, School Library Journal, Bookpage, and Bulletin.
Emezi's debut autobiographical novel FRESHWATER (Grove Atlantic) is in early development as a TV series at FX, with Emezi writing and executive producing with Tamara P. Carter. Translated into twelve languages, FRESHWATER won the 2019 Otherwise Award (formerly the Tiptree) and the Nommo Award. It was a New York Times Notable Book as well as a finalist for the Center for Fiction's First Novel Prize, the PEN/Hemingway Award, the NYPL Young Lions Fiction Award, the Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction, and a Lambda Literary Award. FRESHWATER was long-listed for the Carnegie Medal of Excellence, the Women's Prize for Fiction, the Brooklyn Public Library Literary Prize, The Wellcome Prize, the Aspen Words Literary Prize, and named a 2018 Best Book of the Year by the New Yorker, NPR, the Chicago Public Library, and Buzzfeed.
Follow them on social media at @azemezi or check out their website www.akwaeke.com!
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Feyi is ready to put herself back out there in the dating scene and live life fully on her own terms; I applaud how she does it with both wreckless abandon and a guarded heart. She’s certainly not ready for romance, but it finds her just the same. When the opportunity comes to travel to an island paradise and show her work in a show, she goes for it. Her companion (who orchestrated this opportunity) is handsome and caring, and he’s giving her all the space she needs to be comfortable with their are-they-or-are-they-not relationship.
What no one, especially Feyi, expects is that she will find something more on the island, something that should be off-limits. She’s very much aware of societal expectations, and while it’s insta-love (which I normally 🤢 over), it’s written so exquisitely I’m not mad about it. This is not your typical romance.
It’s a steamy read with amazing queer and cultural representation. I completely melted into this world; the unapologetically real characters, the deeply relatable trauma and healing of moving forward, and the locales (both Brooklyn and the Caribbean) that transported me. Emezi is never afraid of embracing the messiness of life and love, and let’s face it- life and love are MESSY AF. Their writing is so poetic and raw and will stay with me.
Feyi is ready to put herself back out there in the dating scene and live life fully on her own terms; I applaud how she does it with both wreckless abandon and a guarded heart. She’s certainly not ready for romance, but it finds her just the same. When the opportunity comes to travel to an island paradise and show her work in a show, she goes for it. Her companion (who orchestrated this opportunity) is handsome and caring, and he’s giving her all the space she needs to be comfortable with their are-they-or-are-they-not relationship.
What no one, especially Feyi, expects is that she will find something more on the island, something that should be off-limits. She’s very much aware of societal expectations, and while it’s insta-love (which I normally 🤢 over), it’s written so exquisitely I’m not mad about it. This is not your typical romance.
It’s a steamy read with amazing queer and cultural representation. I completely melted into this world; the unapologetically real characters, the deeply relatable trauma and healing of moving forward, and the locales (both Brooklyn and the Caribbean) that transported me. Emezi is never afraid of embracing the messiness of life and love, and let’s face it- life and love are MESSY AF. Their writing is so poetic and raw and will stay with me.
The main character, artist Feyi Adekola, is trying to learn how to live again after her husband of one year, Jonah—her childhood sweetheart—is killed in a fiery car accident that also left her riddled with “intermittend islands of hypertrophies tissue falling like stars down her left leg, a raised and jagged line across her palm, an everlasting bruise on her forearm from when they dragged her out of the car, scraping her across the road,” and although she had seen the paramedics take Jonah’s pulse and shake their heads, she begged them to go back for him but the car exploded into flame. Five years later, the action of the story begins while she is sharing a brownstone apartment with her BFF, Joy, a lesbian who keeps insisting that Feyi start dating again.
Feyi’s five years of celibacy ends when she meets a stranger, Milan, at a rooftop party in Brooklyn, and enters into a purely sexual relationship with him, and then ends up with his friend, Nasir, in a “friendship” that he clearly wants to be more. He hooks her with a famous curator in the Caribbean islands and they fly off to the island where Feyi’s art will be an exhibit at a curated show. When she steps off the plane and immediately goes weak in the knees when she meets Nasir’s father, Akim, a celebrity chef who owns a modern place of glass and wood on a secluded mountainside property. Akim, it turns out, is also no stranger to overwhelming sorrow, and despite the 19-year different in their ages, form a bond over their enduring griefs that becomes a slow-burn romance fraught with complications. The story is really about living with pain and mortality, the terror of trusting again, and how the many feelings become tangled. The cast of characters was diverse, not in terms of race, as all the characters are Black, but in terms of sexuality: there were a number of gay and bisexual characters, including Akim.
After getting over the disappointment of how much this book was a departure from the book that made me fall in love with Emezi’s writing, I finally settled into it. By the end, I was hooked, but it took a long while. 288 pages. Black fiction; romance; literary fiction.
Feyi is still grieving the loss of her husband, killed in a car crash 5 years ago. She’s relearning how to live without guilt and has decided that this summer is when it will happen. Starting a sex-only situationship is her first step. Being interested in his friend was not in the plans but being “just friends” is all that she wants from Nassir. The fact that he agrees to go slow is helpful. The fact that he ends up getting her into an art showcase is an amazing opportunity. Meeting and falling for his father? Messy as hell.
Alim is a famous chef who is a known recluse. He likes his huge house in the hills on tropical island and has numerous restaurants around the world. He’s raised his 2 kids and survived the loss of his wife 20+ years ago. He hasn’t had a serious relationship with anyone but the more he gets to know Feyi, the more he wants to bask in her light.
This book is focused around Feyi and her circle. Alim is important to her story, but it’s more about how Feyi is navigating the feeling of falling in love with someone for the first time since the loss of her husband. How her feelings for Nassir were definitely not love and truly was friendship, regardless of where he saw it going. How her friendship with her best friend Joy adds so much laughter and fun to her life and keeps her grounded. But, always, how she learns to trust herself, her art and her heart.
Feyi and Alim, even with the age difference, make sense. Yes, it’s messy because of their connection to Nassir, but the fact that they are 2 people, bonded by loss and attempting love again it’s amazing to witness.
I laughed out loud and teared up. The language/writing is gorgeous and truly atmospheric. I highly recommend this book.
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Although this is a relatively easy read and written fairly simply, it made for a pleasant experience. I enjoyed the character development and the twist in the plot towards the end, though it was rather predictable!