You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty: A Novel
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Akwaeke Emezi. (2022). You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty: A Novel. Atria Books.

Akwaeke Emezi. 2022. You Made a Fool of Death With Your Beauty: A Novel. Atria Books.

Akwaeke Emezi, You Made a Fool of Death With Your Beauty: A Novel. Atria Books, 2022.

Akwaeke Emezi. You Made a Fool of Death With Your Beauty: A Novel. Atria Books, 2022.

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   • bioText: Akwaeke Emezi (they/them) is the author of the New York Times bestseller The Death of Vivek Oji, which was a finalist for the Dylan Thomas Prize, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and the PEN/Jean Stein Award; Pet, a finalist for the National Book Award for Young People's Literature, a Walter Honor Book, and a Stonewall Honor Book; Freshwater, which was named a New York Times Notable Book and shortlisted for the PEN/Hemingway Award, the New Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award, the Lambda Literary Award, and the Center for Fiction's First Novel Prize; Dear Senthuran: A Black Spirit Memoir, which won the 2022 ALA Stonewall Prize for Best Nonfiction Book; and most recently, Content Warning: Everything, their debut poetry collection, and Bitter, their second young adult novel. Selected as a 5 Under 35 honoree by the National Book Foundation and featured on a Time cover as a Next Generation Leader, they are based in liminal spaces.
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A Good Morning America Buzz Pick, a Best Romance of 2022 by The New York Times and The Washington Post, and a Most Anticipated Book of 2022 by Oprah Daily, Vulture, Harper's Bazaar, Thrillist, Essence, Good Housekeeping, Glamour, Marie Claire, Parade, Bustle, BuzzFeed, Refinery29, Business Insider, The Guardian, Financial Times, PopSugar, Book Riot, LitHub, Bookish, LGBTQ Reads, and more!

"A deeply heartfelt romance novel." —Marie Claire

"An unabashed ode to living with, and despite, pain and mortality." —The New York Times Book Review

A New York Times bestselling author, National Book Award finalist, and "one of our greatest living writers" (Shondaland) reimagines the love story in this fresh and seductive novel about a young woman seeking joy while healing from loss.
Feyi Adekola wants to learn how to be alive again.
It's been five years since the accident that killed the love of her life and she's almost a new person now—an artist with her own studio and sharing a brownstone apartment with her ride-or-die best friend, Joy, who insists it's time for Feyi to ease back into the dating scene. Feyi isn't ready for anything serious, but a steamy encounter at a rooftop party cascades into a whirlwind summer she could have never imagined: a luxury trip to a tropical island, decadent meals in the glamorous home of a celebrity chef, and a major curator who wants to launch her art career.
She's even started dating the perfect guy, but their new relationship might be sabotaged before it has a chance by the overwhelming desire Feyi feels every time she locks eyes with the one person in the house who is most definitely off-limits—his father.
This new life she asked for just got a lot more complicated, and Feyi must begin her search for real answers. Who is she ready to become? Can she release her past and honor her grief while still embracing her future? And, of course, there's the biggest question of all—how far is she willing to go for a second chance at love? Akwaeke Emezi's vivid and passionate writing takes us deep into a world of possibility and healing, and the constant bravery of choosing love against all odds.

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     December 1, 2021
     

     After the gorgeous verve of the award-worthy novels Freshwater and The Death of Vivek Oji, National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 author Emezi looks at love, loss, and healing from another angle. Feyi has spent five years mourning the death of her one true love and thinks that finally she might be ready for a new relationship. She's an artist with her own studio, sought out by a major curator, and excited after a summer of wining and dining and one hot rooftop encounter. She's even started dating a man who seems ideal. But she can't help feeling drawn to the one person in her life who isn't available. Smart readers everywhere will be clamoring; with a 150,000-copy first printing.

     Copyright 2021 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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     January 3, 2022
     Bestseller Emezi (Freshwater) unpacks the ever-present weight of grief in this deeply emotional love story. It’s been five years since artist Feyi Adekola lost the love of her life, Jonah, in a car crash that still haunts her dreams. Now the 29-year-old hopes to create a new life in New York City, refocusing on her art and living comfortably with her best friend, Joy. A flirtatious-turned-sexual encounter with a stranger even convinces her to reconsider the possibility of companionship. Enter perfect gentleman Nasir Blake, who’s attentive, supportive of Feyi’s art, and understanding of her reluctance to get serious. When Nasir offers Feyi the opportunity to show her work at a gallery with a famous curator while on a luxury vacation with his family, her life finally starts to feel like her own again. But after Feyi meets Nasir’s famous chef father, Alim, she’s smitten with him, and no matter how inappropriate the infatuation may be, she can’t get him out of her mind. Emezi does a great job capturing the unavoidable mess as the complicated characters collide. Though the middle gets a bit winded and repetitive, there are some powerful revelations about loss and love along the way. This is sure to tug at readers’ heartstrings.

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     April 1, 2022
     A scorching tale of love after loss from the author of The Death of Vivek Oji (2020). In the opening scene of this novel, Feyi Adekola is in a bathroom at a house party having sex with a man she's just met. This is the first time she's had sex in five years--since her husband died in a car accident--and Milan is attractive, eager, and convenient. Soon, she embarks on a slightly more demanding relationship. Nasir wants more than her body. When she shows him her artwork, he gets her a place in a group show and an invitation to his father's luxurious home on a tropical island. She's shocked to discover that Nasir's father is celebrity chef Alim Blake. The attraction she feels for the older man is instantaneous--and different. "When she'd met both Milan and Nasir, she'd been drawn to them because the want had started in their eyes. It had beckoned her over like bait, calling her until she built a mirror, reflecting it back to them. This was foreign...." She feels a special connection with Alim when she learns that he's known tragedy, too. What transpires from this point is...complicated. The slow burn Emezi generates as Feyi and Alim fight their shared desire is well crafted, but the ease with which Alim is willing to destroy his relationship with his son--and his daughter--for Feyi is chilling. Feyi insists that no one who hasn't lost a partner can understand her, but the way she and Alim talk about themselves as a whole world with two people in it feels more like folie � deux than real love. Feyi's career as an artist also seems detached from reality. She achieves a level of success that means she's either singularly gifted or uniquely lucky. And it's too bad that the most engaging character here--her best friend, Joy--gets relegated to the role of one-woman chorus, talking sense that Feyi absolutely does not want to hear. A narrative built from clich� and pure fantasy.

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     January 1, 2022
     

     After the tragic death of her husband, aspiring artist Feyi Adekola has been widowed for five years when she decides it's time to take her life back. With some prodding from her best friend Joy, Feyi slowly eases back into the dating scene with handsome Nasir. Nasir whisks Feyi away to a tropical island where she's a guest at his family's home. With the prospect of an art exhibition, exploring a beautiful island, and staying at the home of a celebrity chef, Feyi's life seems perfect. However, even though she is dating Nasir, Feyi cannot help the feelings she develops for someone else on the island. Will Feyi succumb to her feelings and the forbidden romance, or will she stay with Nasir? VERDICT Emezi's (The Death of Vivek Oji) latest work is sexy, complex, and moving. The author illustrates the complexities of grief, new love, and a young woman discovering who she is and who she wants to be, and readers will enjoy a new take on a love triangle romance.--Anna Kallemeyn

     Copyright 2022 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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     Starred review from March 15, 2022
     Emezi followed their masterful debut novel, Freshwater (2018), with another adult novel, two young-adult novels, and a memoir, Dear Senthuran (2021). They now present a refreshingly complex take on love stories in a tale filled with lingering, heartfelt sentences and passionate embraces. Five years after losing the love of her life in a car accident, artist Feyi Adekola is ready to rejoin the land of the living. At the encouragement of her best friend, Joy, Feyi steps back into the dating world, planning to keep her liaisons simple and easy. But an unexpected meeting on a rooftop bar leads to a summer on a tropical island and the chance to showcase her art and express the pain still tearing her heart apart. Unfortunately, the one person able to piece the fragments back together, her new lover's father, is the one person who is most definitely off-limits. Emezi has created a dazzling celebration of the messiness of living and feeling with their signature gift for articulating characters' inner voices in raw and expressive detail. Couple that with a thrilling story of forbidden love, and Emezi has created a seductive and powerful novel that will make readers feel renewed.HIGH-DEMAND BACKSTORY: Emezi is the main attraction, but with the screen rights sold to Amazon Studios, and Michael B. Jordan on-board for development, this title will attract an even larger audience.

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