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and heartfelt.” —People • “Mind-bending.” —New York Times Book Review In this exhilarating tale
by New York Times bestselling and award-winning author Nnedi Okorafor a disabled Nigerian
American woman pens a wildly successful Sci-Fi novel but as her fame rises she loses control
of the narrative—a surprisingly cutting yet heartfelt drama about art and love identity and
connection and ultimately what makes us human in a compelling work of speculative fiction.
The future of storytelling is here. Disabled disinclined to marry and more interested in
writing than a lucrative career in medicine or law Zelu has always felt like the outcast of
her large Nigerian family. Then her life is upended when in the middle of her sister’s lavish
Caribbean wedding she’s unceremoniously fired from her university job and to add insult to
injury her novel is rejected by yet another publisher. With her career and dreams crushed in
one fell swoop she decides to write something just for herself. What comes out is nothing like
the quiet literary novels that have so far peppered her unremarkable career. It’s a far-future
epic where androids and AI wage war in the grown-over ruins of human civilization. She calls it
Rusted Robots. When Zelu finds the courage to share her strange novel she does not realize she
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the razor-sharp commentary of Yellowface with the heartfelt humanity of Tomorrow and Tomorrow
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Broken Angels "There’s more vivid imagination in a page of Nnedi Okorafor’s work than in whole
volumes." — Ursula K. Le Guin
