
Ada was born with one foot on the other side Having prayed her into existence her parents Saul & Saachi struggle to deal with the volatile & contradictory spirits peopling their troubled girl When Ada comes of age & heads to college the entities within her grow in power & agency An assault leads to a crystallization of her selves As?ghara & Saint Vincent As Ada fades into the background of her own mind & these selves
- now protective now hedonistic
- seize control of Ada her life spirals in a dark & dangerous direction Narrated from the perspectives of the various selves within Ada & based in the author's realities Freshwater explores the metaphysics of identity & being Feeling explodes through the language of this scalding novel heralding the arrival of a fierce new literary voice