"…Whenever you write something biographical, everyone in your family doesn’t share the same memory. So your version of the story is not necessarily their version of the story, and part of the flexibility in having it fictionalized is that there’s not really a need to adhere to the strict facts. Because everything is colored by memory, especially when you’re pulling from childhood memories. There’s a little bit of wiggle room. This is my story of these events, as I remember it, as I experienced it…"
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On including biographical details in “A SPIRIT BORN INTO A HUMAN BODY: TALKING WITH AKWAEKE EMEZI” in The Rumpus (2018 Feb 21)
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