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Okorafor-Mbachu, Nnedi

The Shadow Speaker

336 pp. | Hyperion/Jump | October, 2007 | Trade ISBN 978-1-4231-0033-1 $16.99
(4) YA In an alternate-reality Nigeria, 2070, fourteen-year-old Ejii, a telepathic "shadow speaker," learns that she will avert a war. With her affectionate talking camel, Ejii heads into the Sahara Desert to prepare. The novel is brimful with ideas about war, destiny, and identity, but the overly transparent moral message mitigates its power.
Reviewer: Deirdre F. Baker

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