![]() Patrick Maxwell is a journalist and writer. Ultimately, though, not a page of this novel manages to strike home. If you want an easy romance, it’s an easy read. Yet Emezi’s novel does not go much beyond that brief moments of emotional tenderness are blotted out by the portentous descriptions of night-time exploits and instantaneous crushes. Five years after that defining loss, she pursues a rapid series of lovers and bedfellows, wary of the long relationship which would betray her husband. ![]() ![]() Emezi does not let a signal detail of their characters’ loves escape our notice.įeyi, a young artist living in New York, has struggled to recover from the death of her husband Jonah. You Made a Fool of Death With Your Beauty is out now (Faber & Faber)Īkwaeke Emezi’s acclaimed You Made a Fool of Death With Your Beauty is a novel for a different kind of reader. ![]()
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