And I appreciate the understanding from the community as I learn. Thank you to the commenter on IG who pointed this out and has allowed me the chance to address it and correct myself. I send my heartfelt apologies for any pain and erasure this original post caused. I’m choosing to keep my original post as is, but adding this apology and explanation, to make it clear that I messed up and want to own in, instead of pretending it never happened. So, I am correcting that here, and in all other places that I posted this review. (While this was originally my choice for prompt 7, it was, in fact, an unacceptable oversight on my end, as Solomon does not identify as female. ***And as icing on the cake, it fits The Reading Women Challenge 2020 Prompt #7: Afrofuturism or Africanfuturism. As soon as I saw this novella, and read its blurb, I knew I was going to love it. But long story short, I knew that I’d be keeping an eye out for future works by Solomon, since they were my first foray into the genre and I couldn’t wait to see what they did next.
I am glad to say, as far as my own reading diversity, that I’ve learned more about and experimented with other Afrofuturism novels since then ( Binti being another favorite). And it was before I really had any idea about Afrofuturism as a genre, so it felt truly groundbreaking to me. Just about two years ago I read Solomon’s debut novel, An Unkindness of Ghosts, and was so impressed with the world-building, the diversity of the characters, the writing…it was a fantastic debut.
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