Dear Senthuran

A Black spirit memoir

A raw exploration of identity that shatters boundaries and explodes the way we think about the idea of the self.

In letters addressed to their friends, to members of their family - both biological and chosen — and to fellow storytellers, Akwaeke describes the shape of a life lived in overlapping realities. Through heartbreak, chronic pain, intimacy with death, becoming a beast, this is embodiment as a nonhuman: outside the boundaries imposed by expectations and legibility. This book is an account of the grueling work of realignment and remaking necessary to carve out a future for oneself.

The result is a Black spirit memoir: a powerful, raw unfolding of identity.

'Unlike anything I've read . . . Remarkable.' — Roxane Gay
’An audacious sojourn through the terror and beauty of refusing to explain yourself. ' — New York Times

ISBN: 9780571366156 | Published: 31 August 2021 | Trade paperback | 304 pages
ISBN: 9780571366163 | Published: 1 November 2022 | Paperback | 304 pages