First Draft - Akwaeke Emezi
First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing
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I Want to Be in Alam's House
The book is about a young woman who falls in love with an older man. The author wanted to show how the same situation can feel so different, just depending on where you're standing. She says she was thinking about this ea of forbidden love, and is this actually a thing? I mean, it's been written about forever, and i'm also wondering, you know, that part of me that is right with you."
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