Build Yourself a Boat

2019 National Book Award Longlist

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

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 Boatredefines the language of collective and individual trauma through lyric and memory.