What is revealed in these letters is both the immense strength Emezi has nurtured in order to sustain a belief in who they are despite the destructive noise of the world, as well as Emezi's own brave and poignant vulnerability in charting this journey. Structured as letters to various people - some friends, some lovers, some public figures like Toni Morrison whom Emezi has never met in person - each letter reveals an aspect of Emezi's life that has shaped them into the being they have become. "People can do spectacular things if you forget to tell them it's impossible," Akwaeke Emezi writes several chapters into their new book Dear Senthuran: A Black Spirit Memoir.
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