You Made A Fool Of Death WIth Your Beauty by Akwaeke Emezi

This is well written, and the plot line is overall within the realm of what happens in life. Trauma has a binding effect that is powerful, mostly because trauma is so isolating and so intense. It is hard for other people to relate, and the vast majority do not want to talk about it. And beware, anyone who tells you this is a romance has completely missed the central themes of this book. The main character, Feyi, is in her late twenties, living in Brooklyn in New York. For the last five years, she’s been merely existing, rather than living since her husband died in a car accident that left her with barely a scratch, less than a year after they got married. She has made a decision that she needs to get back into the relationship game, and let's just say she has a couple of initial forays (which are graphically described, so if you are into that, this book has a lot going on in that department, and well done) and when she takes a do or die plunge it has a lot that is cringe worthy about it, but a lot to think about as well. This was a bumpy read for me, but others might very well love it.