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DEBUT Madness is often described in terms of different selves, but Emezi does something absorbingly original with that idea. In her spiritually lush and tough yet lyrical debut, the Nigerian-born winner of the 2017 Commonwealth Short Story Prize for Africa grounds these selves in Igbo cosmology, showing that they creep into human beings at birth when the gates between this world and the beyond aren't properly closed. For Ada, growing up di...Log In or Sign Up to Read More