Akwaeke Emezi Writes About the Messiness of Finding Love

Marie Claire: Could you talk a little about the development of the book and deciding to focus on Feyi dating as a way to go along with her journey, working through the grief from losing her husband?This wasn't a book that I started writing that turned out to be a romance novel. I very much wanted to write a romance, so her grief storyline was actually surprising to me. I wanted it to be a simple romance, but as a character, she ended up being more complex than I expected.

MC: You've said before how you read everything as a child—including romance novels. Did you draw inspiration for many of them when you started working on the book?I've read hundreds of romance novels in my life and I genuinely do mean hundreds. In my teenage years we would smuggle Harlequin and Mills and Boone romances to each other in school because they were contraband. We weren't allowed to bring them to school or exchange them and we did this anyway.

It also helped me realize that I could write a romance the way that I wanted to, and give myself the permission to write without trying to make it fit convention. The only thing that really mattered was that it has to have a Happily Ever After, because if it doesn't have a Happily Ever After, it is not a romance novel. That was pretty much the only criteria that I held myself to.

MC: I also did want to talk about Amazon Studios’ forthcoming screen adaptation of the book, which you're actually serving as executive producer on. I'm very curious whether you wanted to be involved in the adaptation from the beginning, or did that opportunity come up during negotiations?It's very deliberate. I'm pretty hands on with all my adaptations, and I intend to continue being.

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