Akata Woman

Locations
Call Number: Teen Book / Fiction / Fantasy / Okorafor, Nnedi
On Shelf At: Downtown Library, Malletts Creek Branch, Pittsfield Branch, Westgate Branch

Location & Checkout Length	Call Number	Checkout Length	Item Status
Downtown Teen, 1st Floor 4-week checkout	Teen Book / Fiction / Fantasy / Okorafor, Nnedi	4-week checkout	On Shelf
Malletts Teen Books 4-week checkout	Teen Book / Fiction / Fantasy / Okorafor, Nnedi	4-week checkout	On Shelf
Pittsfield Teen Books 4-week checkout	Teen Book / Fiction / Fantasy / Okorafor, Nnedi	4-week checkout	On Shelf
Westgate Teen Books 4-week checkout	Teen Book / Fiction / Fantasy / Okorafor, Nnedi	4-week checkout	On Shelf
Traverwood Teen Books 4-week checkout	Teen Book / Fiction / Fantasy / Okorafor, Nnedi	4-week checkout	Due 05-02-2024

With the help of her friends, fifteen-year-old Sunny embarks on a mission to find a precious object and return it to the spider deity Udide, but defeating the guardians of Udide's ghazal will put all of Sunny's hard lessons and abilities to the test.

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I love Okorafor's writing, but this one wasn't my favorite submitted by Susan4Pax -prev. sueij- on June 28, 2023, 8:48pm I didn’t love this as much as I wanted to, although I definitely feel like I’m missing some cultural Nigerian context that would resonate for some others. I think what didn’t personally work for me is that almost this entire story is a journey book (think _Lord of the Rings_ or _The Wizard of Oz_), but there are very few distinct adventures along the way. Not none, but not many, and then ones that happen don’t particularly seem to shape the rest of the journey (they don’t change the journey or the characters). In addition, the big-picture journey itself is mostly characterized as “Wow, this is weird, inexplicable, and unlike anything that exists anywhere else!”… but for several hundred pages as the 4 main characters travel through a number of different… places? worlds? It got really old to read THAT much about bizarre things that mostly didn’t actually change the shape of the story.

It could be that I’m just not used to this kind of storytelling. I accept that. But in the end, any book review by me is about my experience of a book, and this wasn’t as compelling of a read as I’ve found other of Okorafor’s books to be.