Ada is an ogbanje, a spirit child who is born repeatedly to the same parents, taunting and torturing them with many reincarnations. While the effects of this claim might read like a curse, they are really a manifestation of a demand that she follow a predestined path. All the while, there is a claim on her head, “for being born incorrectly, for not returning, for crossing the ocean sifted with death”. At 16, Ada also leaves Nigeria, for the United States, where she spends her turbulent college years in Virginia. Although she visits her family in Nigeria once or twice each year, she will never again live in the home she once made with her proud and impatient husband. When Ada is still a child, Saachi leaves to work abroad, first in Saudi Arabia and then in the UK. Thus, this bildungsroman about a character whose essence is rooted in Igbo cosmology begins by inextricably linking her consciousness with cosmic forces that existed long before she was born.Īda is the second child of Saul, a Nigerian doctor, and his Malaysian wife Saachi, a nurse.

Conceived as an answer to her Catholic father’s prayers, Ada is a response from an Igbo deity – Ala – whose ways and worship her father has all but forgotten. “H ow do you survive when they place a god inside your body?” This surprising question animates Akwaeke Emezi’s remarkable debut, pulsing through every phase of its heroine’s arduous but luminous journey with and towards her multitudinous selves.

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