About the Book: QUIXOTIC FISSURES: Notes on Transformation
QUIXOTIC FISSURES is a hybrid collection of essays, stories and other writing
that foreground moments of transformation, reconfiguration and regeneration of
the body and the mind. Irenosen Okojie takes as her starting point the idea of
carrying trauma in the body as a legacy of blackness, carries this with her as
she explores experiences of depression and illness; considers healing powers
shared between generations of women in her family; or follows an artwork
escaping from the colonialism of the art establishment. The collection closes
with The Things I Remember About My Father, a deeply moving essay in