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"Feyi Adekola wants to learn how to be alive again. It's been five years since the accident that killed the love of her life and she's almost a new person now--an artist with her own studio, and sharing a brownstone apartment with her ride-or-die best friend, Joy, who insists it's time for Feyi to ease back into the dating scene. Feyi isn't ready for anything serious, but a steamy encounter at a rooftop party cascades into a whirlwind summer she could have never imagined: a luxury trip to a tropical island, decadent meals in the glamorous home of a celebrity chef, and a major curator who wants to launch her art career. She's even started dating the perfect guy, but their new relationship might be sabotaged before it has a chance by the dangerous thrill Feyi feels every time she locks eyes with the one person in the house who is most definitely off-limits."--Provided by publisher.
About the author
Akwaeke Emezi (they/them) is the author of the
New York Times bestseller
The Death of Vivek Oji, which was a finalist for the Dylan Thomas Prize, the
Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and the PEN/Jean Stein Award;
Pet, a finalist for the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature, a Walter Honor Book, and a Stonewall Honor Book;
Freshwater, which was named a
New York Times Notable Book and shortlisted for the PEN/Hemingway Award, the New Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award, the Lambda Literary Award, and the Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize;
Dear Senthuran: A Black Spirit Memoir, which won the 2022 ALA Stonewall Prize for Best Nonfiction Book; and most recently,
Content Warning: Everything, their debut poetry collection, and
Bitter, their second young adult novel
. Selected as a 5 Under 35 honoree by the National Book Foundation and featured on a
Time cover as a Next Generation Leader, they are based in liminal spaces.
