" Tochi Onyebuchi has a kindness and curiosity that imbues his characters with respect and believable complications."
I met Tochi on a panel right before the pandemic hit and he was so delightful and engaging that I took a copy of his book home with me. Post #MeToo, a depressingly predictable number of male writers have suddenly turned away from tough guy narrators to writing women protagonist who are feisty and kick ass and love to give blow jobs.
Tochi isn’t like that. He has a kindness and curiosity that imbues his characters with respect and believable complications. His young women are trying to find a place in the world that seeks to stifle them. That they are able to find ways through the many obstacles thrown in their paths speaks to Tochi’s sensitivities and I dare say his own family’s immigrant experience.
Selected by our Early Summer 2021 Guest Editor Karin Slaughter
Ella has a Thing. She sees a classmate grow up to become a caring nurse. A neighbor's son murdered in a drive-by shooting. Things that haven't happened yet. Kev, born while Los Angeles burned around them, wants to protect his sister from a power that could destroy her. But when Kev is incarcerated, Ella must decide what it means to watch her brother suffer while holding the ability to wreck cities in her hands.
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Ella has a Thing. She sees a classmate grow up to become a caring nurse.
Riot Baby features in the following genres: Dystopian and utopian fiction, Science Fiction, Narrative theme: Coming of age, Speculative fiction, Fiction, Fiction: narrative themes, Fantasy, Audiobooks of the Month, Recommendations
Audiobook, Hardback. Not Available.
Riot Baby was written by Tochi Onyebuchi and published by Tor.com
Riot Baby has 176 pages
