Reading a Book by a Nigerian Author Changed My Life — Here Are 6 Others That Might Change Yours

If you're looking for a book that will settle in your bones for a good long while, then I suggest Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi — a coming-of-age story about Ada, a young girl who is born with "one foot on the other side." The book explores her multiple personalities and the way they interact to form all that is Ada, which at times can be haunting and difficult to read (but in the best way). Through Freshwater, Emezi invites us into Igbo tradition and ontologies, illuminating a perspective that is absent from black American literature and beyond. This one woke up a part of me I didn't know needed examining and sent chills down my spine. I could barely look at it after. But it's absolutely and totally a must read.