Akwaeke Emezi's new book about death is full of life — the life of a person who doesn't conform to the community's expectations of their gender or sexuality.
, was about liminal spaces in that sense, you know, between the spiritual world and the physical world, and I think about liminal spaces a lot. And I think that relates to boundary crossing. All these Nigerwives in Nigeria, essentially, that's an immigrant's community. And after I came to the United States, I lived in an immigrant community ever since.
. And in this case, I was interested in reincarnation names, because in Igbo culture, which is my ethnicity, reincarnation names are a very common thing. But in a contemporary context, we don't really talk about reincarnation because everything is kind of Christian now. However, I had gone back to Lagos, and I met a friend who was born with a scar that his grandfather had, and his grandmother had no idea that his mom had gone into labor. But on the day of his birth, she called his mother and she said,"My husband has come back, make sure you name him properly." And this was recent. This is like in the '80s, the late '80s.
And I don't believe in that for everyone, because it's not that simple and it's not that straight of a line. So, with Vivek, I wanted to show a character who is true to himself the entire way. There is no version of him that is more or less authentic than the other. What he's doing is exploring additional aspects to himself, like through the book you see him explore with fashion and makeup and his gender expression. And he's just — it's an additive process.
This story was produced for radio by Clare Lombardo and Jolie Myers, and adapted for the Web by Petra Mayer
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