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Death of the Author by Nnedi Okorafor
4.5
adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

How dare she be so good? How dare she also write such weird and interesting and complicated and everywhere stories in the process.
Why is it so much easier to talk about why bad books are bad than to talk about why good books are good and stories about stories are the hardest of all.
I loved this and I loved that it used narrative to talk about hard things specifically because polemic is too shallow to have meaningful conversations about creativity and story and disability and family and culture and race. So instead Okorafor gives us a story layered within a story layered within a...it's stories all the way down.