The Shadow Speaker

Nnedi Okorafor

About this book

In West Africa in 2070, after fifteen-year-old "shadow speaker" Ejii witnesses her father's beheading, she embarks on a dangerous journey across the Sahara to find Jaa, her father's killer, and upon finding her, she also discovers a greater purpose to her life and to the mystical powers she possesses.

Subjects

  • adventure and adventurers
  • adventure and adventurers, fiction
  • adventure stories
  • africa, west, fiction
  • children's fiction
  • collection:otherwise_tiptree_award=honor
  • fantasy
  • fantasy fiction
  • fiction
  • juvenile fiction
  • magic
  • new york times reviewed
  • sahara, fiction