Opacities: On Writing and the Writing Life (Coming soon-August 13, 2024)Opacities is a book about writing, publishing, and friendship. Rooted in an epistolary relationship between Sofia Samatar and a friend and fellow writer, this collection of meditations traces Samatar's attempt to rediscover the intimacy of writing In a series of compressed, dynamic prose pieces, Samatar blends letters from her friend with notes on literature, turning to douard Glissant to study the necessary opacity of identity, to Theresa Hak Kyung