Success! Just needed a little patience - I hated the other short story by Okorafor in the Scifi collection edited by James SA Corey, but I was determined to find something I liked before delving into a full length novel for this BHM. Bingo! This is fire - I mean inflammable ... whatever you get it.

We open onto absolute chaos in Timbuktu; in the middle of a full blown Terrorist attack, extremists invasion and magic inbetween. I did not expect that at all.

Plot/Storyline/Themes:
So, there's a book in this library that wouldn't burn.

Two Sentences, A Scene or less - Characters:
Oh Issaka's family😥

Favorite/Curious/Ludicrous/Unique Scene: :
●Faro taking refuge in an iPad.
●Uncle Moussa' soliloquy

Favorite/Curious/Ludicrous/Unique Quotes:
🖤 “Heat rises, but it also scorches the earth when it is hungry. That fire is hungry.” (Faro on freedom and Fire)
🖤 “Chicago needs work. But Al Capone was a long time ago.”
“Sure, sure, but spirits and djinn always linger when there is something to linger for.” (On Tv's power to meld stereotypes)
🖤 “She stood tall now, looking at him, looking at him, looking at him. She wasn’t remembering him because she’d never forgotten him” (Faro on Issaka)

Favorite/Curious/Ludicrous/Unique Concepts :
■ Timbuktu
■Ahmed Baba Institute (❤libraries)
■ tempête de sable sandstorm

StoryGraph Challenge: 1800 Books by 2025
Challenge Prompt: 150 Short Stories by 2025