160 pages | HardcoverAn alien artifact turns a young girl into Death’s adopted daughter in this tale of community and female empowerment byBinti‘s Nnedi Okorafor

Shes the adopted daughter of the Angel of Death. Beware of her. Mind her. Death guards her like one of its own.

The day Fatima forgot her name, Death paid a visit. From here on in she would be known as Sankofaa name that meant nothing to anyone but her, the only tie to her family and her past.

Her touch is death, and with a glance a town can fall. And she walksalone, except for her fox companionsearching for the object that came from the sky and gave itself to her when the meteors fell and when she was yet unchanged; searching for answers.

But is there a greater purpose for Sankofa, now that Death is her constant companion?