At once a story of grief, love, and a tribute to life and the time we have on this earth, You Made a Fool of Death With Your Beauty is guaranteed to make you think, cry, laugh, and then want to do it all over again. The story itself is flecked with gold- the prose is strung tightly across each page, unyielding and effortless, and the relationships forged on each page are both subtle and earth shattering. It is also stunning and heart wrenching and guttural and oh so tender. ―Eden Hakimzadeh from Oxford Exchange in Tampa, FL I can’t recommend this novel enough and am excited to continue reading Emezi’s diverse and expansive collection. Emezi introduces us to Feyi Adekola so that we can explore how desire and grief just might inform one another. This book turned out to be one of my favorite reads of all time. After reading Emezi’s collection of poems, Content Warning: Everything, I knew I had to join this romantic journey of what love after loss could really look like.Emezi never ceases to amaze! ―Carroll Gelderman from Garden District Book Shop in New Orleans, LA A sumptuous, sexy, fierce, and fresh romance that makes you feel like bursting out of your front door to take on life and all it has to offer. Such a fantastic read! ―Nyawira Nyota from Books in Wake Forest, NC Loved this and love that this genre is new territory for Emezi, but they are certainly not showing any novice tendencies. The tension was so masterfully built and whew! The payoff was very very good. Several times I would put the book down and just say, “wow”, out loud to myself. This book is chock-full of lines that will pack a punch.What booksellers are saying about You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty I think it’s so important to show a Black woman who is all these things, and that you can be profane and promiscuous and that doesn’t mean that you don’t deserve a happily ever after.”” –Akwaeke Emezi, interview, Vogue And she’s still the same person who is an artist that’s working through her grief. Unfortunately, once I started writing Feyi all this darkness just kept unfolding…It shows all the facets of Feyi as a person-you have the version of her that’s doing rooftop parties and hooking up with people in the bathroom.

“ “I meant to write just like a fluffy romance that didn’t have any heavier themes.

You make a fool of death