Build Yourself A Boat by Camonghne Felix

2019 National Book Award Longlist

This is about what grows through the wreckage. This is an anthem of survival and a look at what might come after. A view of what floats and what, ultimately, sustains. Build Yourself a Boat redefines the language of collective and individual trauma through lyric and memory.

“With Build Yourself a Boat, Camonghne Felix heralds a thrillingly new form of storytelling.”
—Morgan Parker, author of Magical Negro