Affectionately dubbed "the Nigerian Harry Potter," Akata Witch weaves together a heart-pounding tale of magic, mystery, and finding one's place in the world.
Twelve-year-old Sunny lives in Nigeria, but she was born American. Her features are African, but she's albino. She's a terrific athlete, but can't go out into the sun to play soccer. There seems to be no place where she fits in. And then she discovers something amazing-she is a "free agent" with latent magical power. Soon she's part of a quartet of magic students, studying the visible and invisible, learning to change reality. But will it be enough to help them when they are asked to catch a career criminal who knows magic too?
Ursula K. Le Guin and John Green are Nnedi Okorafor fans. As soon as you start reading Akata Witch, you will be, too!
Nnedi Okorafor is a novelist of African-based science fiction, fantasy, and magical realism for both children and adults. Born in the United States to Nigerian immigrant parents, Nnedi is known for weaving African culture into creative evocative settings and memorable characters. In a profile of Nnedi's work, the New York Times called Nnedi's imagination "stunning." Nnedi has received the World Fantasy Award, the Hugo Award, and the Nebula Award, among others, for her novels. She holds a PhD in English and is a professor at SUNY Buffalo. She divides her time between Buffalo and the suburbs of Chicago, where she lives with her daughter. Learn more at nnedi.com or follow her on Twitter @nnedi.
Show moreAffectionately dubbed "the Nigerian Harry Potter," Akata Witch weaves together a heart-pounding tale of magic, mystery, and finding one's place in the world.
Twelve-year-old Sunny lives in Nigeria, but she was born American. Her features are African, but she's albino. She's a terrific athlete, but can't go out into the sun to play soccer. There seems to be no place where she fits in. And then she discovers something amazing-she is a "free agent" with latent magical power. Soon she's part of a quartet of magic students, studying the visible and invisible, learning to change reality. But will it be enough to help them when they are asked to catch a career criminal who knows magic too?
Ursula K. Le Guin and John Green are Nnedi Okorafor fans. As soon as you start reading Akata Witch, you will be, too!
Nnedi Okorafor is a novelist of African-based science fiction, fantasy, and magical realism for both children and adults. Born in the United States to Nigerian immigrant parents, Nnedi is known for weaving African culture into creative evocative settings and memorable characters. In a profile of Nnedi's work, the New York Times called Nnedi's imagination "stunning." Nnedi has received the World Fantasy Award, the Hugo Award, and the Nebula Award, among others, for her novels. She holds a PhD in English and is a professor at SUNY Buffalo. She divides her time between Buffalo and the suburbs of Chicago, where she lives with her daughter. Learn more at nnedi.com or follow her on Twitter @nnedi.
Show moreNnedi Okorafor is a novelist of African-based science fiction, fantasy, and magical realism for both children and adults. Born in the United States to Nigerian immigrant parents, Nnedi is known for weaving African culture into creative evocative settings and memorable characters. In a profile of Nnedi’s work, the New York Times called Nnedi’s imagination “stunning.” Nnedi has received the World Fantasy Award, the Hugo Award, and the Nebula Award, among others, for her novels. She holds a PhD in English and is a professor at SUNY Buffalo. She divides her time between Buffalo and the suburbs of Chicago, where she lives with her daughter. Learn more at nnedi.com or follow her on Twitter @nnedi.
One of Time Magazine's 100 Best Fantasy and Young Adult Books of
All Time!
A Nebula Award nominee
"The book puts a unique, inclusive spin on the timeless tale of the
misfit chosen to save the world."
—Time Magazine
“Okorafor’s novels tend to reflect both her West-African heritage
and American experiences, but in this series she creates a
stunningly original world of African magic that draws on Nigerian
folk beliefs and rituals instead of relying on the predictable
tropes of Western fantasy novels.”
—Time Magazine
"There’s more imagination on a page of Nnedi Okorafor’s work than
in whole volumes of ordinary fantasy epics." —Ursula K. Le
Guin, award-winning author of A Wizard of Earthsea
“The most imaginative, gripping, enchanting fantasy novels I have
ever read!” —Laurie Halse Anderson, National Book Award
finalist and New York Times bestselling author of Speak
"I always loved science fiction, but I didn’t feel I was part of
it—until I read first Octavia Butler, and now Nnedi
Okorafor." —Whoopi Goldberg
"Highly original stuff, episode after amazing episode, full of
color, life, and death. Nnedi Okorafor's work is
wonderful!" —Diana Wynne Jones, award-winning author
of The Chronicles of Chrestomanci
"Jam-packed with mythological wonders." —Rick Riordan, #1
New York Times bestselling author of the Percy Jackson and the
Olympians series
"Okorafor's imagination is stunning." —The New York Times Book
Review
"A marvelous and uplifting read, heartwarming in its portrayal of
true friendship, heartbreaking in its portrayal of headstrong youth
and the perils of pride." —Cory Doctorow, award-winning author
of Little Brother
"Fresh, original, and smart. We need more writers like
her." —Patrick Rothfuss, author of The Name of the Wind
"Nnedi Okorafor is opening doors into strange and beautiful new
worlds. Her heroes are beguiling, her magic firmly rooted in real
places and real things. Rich, mysterious, and convincing, Akata
Witch takes fantasy in a haunting new direction." —Jonathan
Stroud, New York Times bestselling author of The Bartimaeus
Trilogy
"The voice of Nnedi Okorafor does not obey the rules of distance,
time, or place. Hers is the voice that fuses matter and
imagination. She shows us just how close we are to that alternate
reality." —Tchidi Chikere, Nigerian award-winning film
director and screenwriter
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