The inimitable science fiction writer Nnedi Okorafor, then a college track star studying to be an entomologist, expected her spinal fusion surgery to The inimitable science fiction writer Nnedi Okorafor, then a college track star studying to be an entomologist, expected her spinal fusion surgery to be a simple procedure. But when she woke up, she was paralyzed from the waist down. It’s a known and rare complication, and luckily in Okorafor’s case, she eventually regained feeling and learned to walk again. During her months confined to a hospital bed, she hallucinated and dreamed of bugs and mystical worlds around her, which she began writing down. The surgery made her lose her faith in science and pivot her career into writing. Because when something breaks, something greater can be born. Broken Places and Outer Spaces is an incredible short memoir about Okorafor’s experience and the joy she found in writing.
Truly, truly incredible. The Loneliness Files blends stories from the news—a woman who died in front of her TV and wasn’t found for three years, a youTruly, truly incredible. The Loneliness Files blends stories from the news—a woman who died in front of her TV and wasn’t found for three years, a young woman who disappears in the Cecil Hotel—and Dixon’s own tales of isolation, both before and especially during COVID. She reminisces about family and home and what those concepts even mean. And what is the internet doing to us? This was such a gut punch of a book and I couldn’t put it down.
Yellowface has been everywhere this summer for a reason. It’s a juicy, delicious insider-baseball fictional look at publishing from the eyes of a womaYellowface has been everywhere this summer for a reason. It’s a juicy, delicious insider-baseball fictional look at publishing from the eyes of a woman who steals her (dead) nemesis’s work-in-progress and passes it off as her own. What follows is a truly wild ride that at times had me rooting for June before remembering that she’s the villain of her own story.
A Sam Irby slam dunk. (A Sam dunk??) I do not care a lick about Sex and the City, but I cackled through the large chunk of the book focused on the serA Sam Irby slam dunk. (A Sam dunk??) I do not care a lick about Sex and the City, but I cackled through the large chunk of the book focused on the series. I also appreciated getting more vulnerable stories than Irby’s shared with us before. If you’re into snark and dark humor and poop tales, Quietly Hostile is for you. Best experienced on audio, read by the author!
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