You Made a Fool of Death with Your Be..., Akwaeke Emezi
You Made a Fool of Death with Your Be..., Akwaeke Emezi
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You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty

Author: Akwaeke Emezi

Narrator: Bahni Turpin

Unabridged: 9 hr 57 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/24/2022


Synopsis

A Good Morning America Buzz Pick

“A love story like no other, and this one…will have you gripped from page one.” —Vogue

“An unabashed ode to living with, and despite, pain and mortality.” —The New York Times Book Review

A New York Times bestselling author, National Book Award finalist, and “one of our greatest living writers” (Shondaland) reimagines the love story in this “riveting and emotional exploration of grief and taking a second chance on love” (PopSugar).

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 overwhelming desire Feyi feels every time she locks eyes with the one person who is most definitely off-limits—his father. Can she release her past and honor her grief while still embracing her future? And, of course, there’s the biggest question of all—how far is she willing to go for a second chance at love?

“With tenderhearted characters and an immaculate balance of realistic dialogue and lyrical prose” (BuzzFeed), Akwake Emezi’s vivid and passionate writing takes us deep into a world of possibility and healing. You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty is a “a love letter to the brave choices we make in the name of love, the costs we pay for it, and the glory of the reward at the end” (Marie Claire).

About Akwaeke Emezi

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.


Reviews

Goodreads review by emma

i can tolerate a lot of things in books, but i cannot tolerate NONSENSE. people would never act like this! and if they do, don't tell me! ignorance really is bliss and i would rather live in what is apparently a fantasy world where people are normal and no one is this insane. for example. if the girl......more

go to hell. this book sucks. why exactly are these two people together outside of lust.......cause they both have dead partners? well then, let everyone who has lost someone get married to each other. this is a forced "romance" that is just supported from you guys cause of the messiness of it all. Sh......more

this was certainly not what i was expecting......more

Goodreads review by Candi

I quite literally picked up this book for the very first time simply because of that intriguing title. Then I read the first sentence. After that hook, I couldn’t help but read the first couple of pages… the first chapter; despite the fact I was in the middle of a couple of other books. I set it bac......more

Goodreads review by karen

NOW AVAILABLE!!! this is a romance novel. and i do not like romance novels. however, emezi's writing is always fire, so even though the skeleton of this is a pretty formulaic "widow gets second chance at true love" romance plot, it's a great version of this kind of story, so despite the many times i......more


Quotes

"Turpin’s tone and pacing perfectly match Feyi’s shifting emotions as she navigates her future."