![]() ![]() ![]() If you haven’t read it yet – and if that content sounds like something you can safely handle – you should definitely put it on your list. Desperate to elude her would-be murderer and to understand her own nature, she embarks on a journey in which she grapples with nature, tradition, history, true love, and the spiritual mysteries of her culture, and ultimately learns why she was given the name she bears: Who Fears Death. Okorafor examines a host of evils in her chillingly realistic tale-gender and racial inequality share top billing, along with female genital mutilation and complacency in the face of destructive tradition-and winds these disparate concepts together into a fantastical, magical blend of grand storytelling.” As Onyesonwu grows into her powers, it becomes clear that her fate is mingled with the fate of her people, the oppressed Okeke, and that to achieve her destiny, she must die. As the Publishers Weekly review summarized: “The young sorceress Onyesonwu-whose name means Who fears death?-was born Ewu, bearing a mixture of her mother’s features and those of the man who raped her mother and left her for dead in the desert. ![]() Who Fears Death is set in post-apocalyptic Saharan Africa, where the darker-skinned Okeke people are oppressed and terrorized by the lighter-skinned Nuru. ![]()
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