Once on the run, she meets a Fulani herdsman named DNA and the race against time across the deserts of Northern Nigeria begins. And then one day she goes to her local market and everything goes wrong. Yet instead of viewing her strange body the way the world views it, as freakish, unnatural, even the work of the devil, AO embraces all that she A woman with a ton of major and necessary body augmentations. Then came the car accident years later that disabled her even further. Her parents spent most of the days before she was born praying for her peaceful passing because even in-utero she was "wrong". AO has never really felt.natural, and that's putting it lightly. To her, these initials have always stood for Artificial Organism. Expect the unaccepted.Now in paperback, from Africanfuturist luminary Okorafor comes a new science fiction novel of intense action and thoughtful rumination on biotechnology, destiny, and humanity in a near-future Nigeria.Īnwuli Okwudili prefers to be called AO. This fast-paced, relentless journey of tribe, destiny, body, and the wonderland of technology revels in the fact that the future sometimes isn’t so predictable. In a world where all things are streamed, everyone is watching the “reckoning of the murderess and the terrorist” and the “saga of the wicked woman and mad man” unfold.
Yet instead of viewing her strange body the way the world views it, as freakish, unnatural, even the work of the devil, AO embraces all that she is: A woman with a ton of major and necessary body augmentations.
Her parents spent most of the days before she was born praying for her peaceful passing because even in-utero she was “wrong”. AO has never really felt…natural, and that’s putting it lightly.
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