She is repped by Verve, Energy Entertainment, and Sloan Offer.Ĭopyright Akwaeke Emezi © 2023. Literary Fiction Freshwater Audible Audiobook Unabridged Akwaeke Emezi (Author, Narrator), HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books (Publisher) 1,243 ratings Editors' pick Best Literature & Fiction See all formats and editions Kindle 8.48 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0. Carter was previously a writer on the HBO series “The Leftovers” as well as the Freeform series “The Fosters.” Her debut short “The Paris Project” aired on Vice in 2017. Emezi is repped by the Wylie Agency and Sloss Eckhouse. The novel is a finalist for the NYPL Young Lions Award, the Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Fiction, and the Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction. Akwaeke Emezi’s debut, Freshwater, is this silk, a slim novel so rooted in its lineage and yet so bright, putting thoughts together in new ways, crafting a devastating and exuberant work. “Freshwater” has drawn notable praise for Emezi. Carter. FX Productions will produce with Kevin Wandell and Lindsey Donahue overseeing the project for FX. 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, w. They eventually take control of her, threatening to ruin her life and sanity.Įmezi will write and executive produce the project along with Tamara P. The series focuses on Ada, a Nigerian student in her final year of college who finds out that she has three spirits living in her subconscious.

FX is in early development on a series based on Akwaeke Emezi’s debut novel “Freshwater,” Variety has learned exclusively.

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