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No cover — Nnedi Okorafor (duplicate): Death of the Author (2025, HarperCollins Publishers)

448 pages

English language

Published 2025 by HarperCollins Publishers.

ISBN:: 978-0-06-344578-9

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benwerd@bookwyrm.social reviewed Death of the Author by Nnedi Okorafor (duplicate)

Beautiful, meta, and strange in the best possible way.

5 stars

A beautiful, literary reflection on storytelling, the self, and the interaction between the two. It’s science fiction, for sure, but it doesn’t fit neatly within that boundary. I won’t spoil the final line, but it encapsulates the form, the medium, and the story perfectly — and reveals a subtext that hadn’t revealed itself to me but is a rich seam throughout the book.

As both a writer and reader, I’m in awe, as I often am with Okorafor’s work. I needed this read and I’m glad I was on this journey.

Pretty Greene Leaves 🌿 reviewed Death of the Author by Nnedi Okorafor (duplicate)

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5 stars

This was a really interesting book, and I think it's one where I kinda blame the blurb for messing up my reading of it. The basic premise is that a Nigerian-American woman, down on her luck, writes a book about robots in a post human future that ends up becoming a huge international success (not a spoiler, literally part of the blurb). But then the blurb says "something strange begins to happen", which made me expect something supernatural or magical realism-ish to happen, and I kept expecting, and kept expecting, but it didn't come. Because that's not really the type of book this is. It's really just a book about this woman's experience of life and family, and navigating the world with a disability. It is a beautiful book. I love it, and I think I want to try listening to it again sometime later with this mentality. I won't …

This was a really interesting book, and I think it's one where I kinda blame the blurb for messing up my reading of it. The basic premise is that a Nigerian-American woman, down on her luck, writes a book about robots in a post human future that ends up becoming a huge international success (not a spoiler, literally part of the blurb). But then the blurb says "something strange begins to happen", which made me expect something supernatural or magical realism-ish to happen, and I kept expecting, and kept expecting, but it didn't come. Because that's not really the type of book this is. It's really just a book about this woman's experience of life and family, and navigating the world with a disability. It is a beautiful book. I love it, and I think I want to try listening to it again sometime later with this mentality. I won't spoil why the blurb thought those words were appropriate, it's truly best to put the book in your queue, forget why you put it there, and read it without the blurb. Buy the book and scribble over the blurb with sharpy.