THE INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER Recommended by New York Times Book Review • People • NPR
• Rolling Stone • Los Angeles Times • Reader's Digest • and more! “This one has it
all.” — George R.R. Martin • “As delicious as it is disorienting.” — Zakiya Dalila Harris •
“Suspenseful timely 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. This is a
story unlike anything you’ve read before. 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 is about to embark on a
life-altering journey—one that will catapult her into literary stardom but also perhaps
obliterate everything her book was meant to be. From Chicago to Lagos to the far reaches of
space Zelu’s novel will change the future not only for humanity but for the robots who come
next. A book-within-a-book that blends the line between writing and being written Death of the
Author is a masterpiece of metafiction that manages to combine the razor-sharp commentary of
Yellowface with the heartfelt humanity of Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow . Surprisingly
funny deeply poignant and endlessly discussable this is at once the tale of a woman on the
margins risking everything to be heard and a testament to the power of storytelling to shape
the world as we know it. “An ambitious inventive tribute to the power of storytelling
itself.” — Nikki Erlick New York Times bestselling author of The Measure “A deeply felt
dazzle. A blaze. It is true deep to the bones.” — Luis Alberto Urrea Pulitzer Prize finalist
and bestselling author of The House of Broken Angels "There’s more vivid imagination in a page
of Nnedi Okorafor’s work than in whole volumes." — Ursula K. Le Guin
