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Riot Baby

By Tochi Onyebuchi
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Riot Baby follows Ella and Kev, siblings born into a world marred by racism and violence in Los Angeles. Ella possesses the unsettling power to foresee tragic events, while Kev seeks to shield her from this destructive force. When Kev is imprisoned, Ella faces the agonising choice of bearing witness to her brother's suffering while wielding a power capable of upheaval. The novel weaves a poignant family drama with a dystopian backdrop, exploring themes of love, fury, and the black American experience.
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Tochi Onyebuchi tackles youth, race, and the carceral state with magical flair in his adult science fiction debut, Riot Baby.

Tochi Onyebuchi tackles youth, race, and the carceral state with magical flair in his adult science fiction debut, Riot Baby.

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Riot Baby bursts at the seams of story with so much fire, passion and power that in the end it turns what we call a narrative into something different altogether. - Marlon James

Ella has a Thing. She sees a classmate grow up to become a caring nurse. A neighbour'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.

Rooted in the hope that can live in anger, Riot Baby is as much an intimate family story as a global dystopian narrative. It burns fearlessly toward revolution and has quietly devastating things to say about love, fury, and the black American experience.

Ella and Kev are both shockingly human and immeasurably powerful. Their childhoods are defined and destroyed by racism. Their futures might alter the world.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781250214751

Publisher: St Martin's Press

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 21 January 2020

Country: United States

Imprint: St Martin's Press

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 133.0mm

Height: 211.0mm

Weight: 0g

Pages: 176

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About the Author

Tochi Onyebuchi is the author of the young adult novel Beasts Made of Night, which won the Ilube Nommo Award for Best Speculative Fiction Novel by an African, its sequel, Crown of Thunder, and War Girls. He holds a B.A. from Yale, a M.F.A. in screenwriting from the Tisch School fo the Arts, a Master's degree in droit économique from Sciences Po, and a J.D. from Columbia Law School. His fiction has appeared in Panverse Three, Asimov's Science Fiction, Obsidian, Omenana Magazine, Uncanny, and Lightspeed. His non-fiction has appeared in Tor.com, Nowhere Magazine, the Oxford University Press blog, and the Harvard Journal of African American Public Policy, among other places. Riot Baby is his adult fiction debut.

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