INK’D: Andrea Ambam’s Fragile State

For Manny, being a first-gen, gen-z, radical Black organizer in a world where every day brings “unprecedented times” was already enough on her plate. So when Manny’s Grandma arrives, making her first visit to America from Cameroon in over 15 years, the shocking family secrets, unspoken cultural histories, and whisperings of war she brings along with her completely turn Manny’s sense of self inside out — all in the midst of Manny's largest organizing feat yet. In this afro-surrealist coming-of-age fable, generations collide and diasporas dance as Manny must reckon with where she comes from to make peace with who she is.