You end up having to create all these subgenres, too, so that you can make sure that every book can be slotted into its appropriate pocket.” I think the strictness of the genre divisions is so silly. Some of the most successful writers in the world write romance and commercial fiction. “Some of the most impactful literature in the world is children’s literature. She meets (among others) adoring Nasir, but it is his father Alim-a renowned celebrity chef living an other-worldly existence on a Caribbean island-who she can’t shake from her mind. ”) It tells the story of Brooklyn-dwelling 29-year-old artist Feyi Adekola, who, after a life-changing bereavement is finally ready to dip a toe back into the world of sex and dating to make herself vulnerable to love again. (The title is, incidentally, borrowed from the Florence + The Machine’s track “Hunger. As a teenager in the mid-’90s, Akwaeke Emezi was, the Nigerian author reveals, an active participant in a “thriving illicit book trade.” This was, of course, at their secondary school and the books in question were smuggled copies of romance novels-think Harlequin and Mills & Boon-which would be discreetly swapped with other lusty teenagers, out of sight of their teachers.Įver since, Emezi, soon to turn 35, has been enthralled by romance novels, as is clear in their latest offering, You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty.
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