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Ada has always been unusual. Her parents prayed her into existence, but something must have gone awry. Their troubled child begins to develop separate selves and is prone to fits of anger and grief. When Ada grows up and heads to college in America, a traumatic event crystallises the selves into something more powerful. As she fades into the background of her own mind, these 'alters' - now protective, now hedonistic - take control, shifting her life in a dangerous direction.

"[A] witchy, electrifying story of danger and compulsion . . . Freshwater recounts the litany of madness suffered by Ada in a serpentine prose that proceeds by oblique, hypnotizing movements before it sinks its fangs into you . . . As striking and mysterious as the ways of the gods who narrate it." Wall Street Journal

Longlisted for the 2019 Womens Prize for Fiction.

#Fiction #Magical Realism #Contemporary #LGBT #Fantasy
#Africa