TY  - BOOK
AU  - Okorafor,Nnedi
TI  - Noor
T2  - DAW book collectors
SN  - 9780756416096
AV  - PS3615.K67 N66 2021
U1  - 813/.6 23/eng/20211027
PY  - 2021///]
CY  - New York, NY
PB  - Daw Books, Inc.
KW  - Women with disabilities
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Cyborgs
KW  - Fugitives from justice
KW  - Sandstorms
KW  - Desert survival
KW  - Nigeria
KW  - Fantasy fiction
KW  - gsafd
KW  - Thrillers (Fiction)
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Science fiction
KW  - Africanfuturist fiction
KW  - Novels
N2  - When everything goes wrong on a trip to the local market, AO, a woman with a ton of major and necessary body augmentations, must race against time across the deserts of Northern Nigeria with a Fulani herdsman named DNA in a world where everything is streamed; Anwuli Okwudili prefers to be called AO. To her, these initials have always stood for Artificial Organism. AO has never really felt...natural, and that's putting it lightly. Her parents spent most of the days before she was born praying for her peaceful passing because even in-utero she was "wrong." But she lived. Then came the car accident years later that disabled her even further. 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. And then one day she goes to her local market and everything goes wrong. Once on the run, she meets a Fulani herdsman named DNA and the race against time across the deserts of Northern Nigeria begins. 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. 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. Expect the unaccepted
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