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Freshwater, by Akwaeke Emezi Cover:paperbackAda has always been unusual. As an infant in southern Nigeria, she is a source of deep concern to her family. Her parents successfully prayed her into existence, but something must have gone awry, as the young Ada becomes a troubled child, prone to violent fits of anger and grief. But Ada turns out to be more than just volatile. Born with one foot on the other side, she begins to develop separate selves. When Ada travels to America for college, a

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Even today

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The farm was claimed as a war veterans headquarters and every weekend political meetings were held in the field below the house--with hundreds in attendance

For most of its existence

It's a fight for survival as Greg and Rowley navigate alliances

within the space of a hundred years

Mauritania and Morocco

It incorporates myth and ritual

Short of airtime to call

bringing them pride