{"id":2073,"date":"2022-05-01T09:14:56","date_gmt":"2022-05-01T16:14:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/?p=2073"},"modified":"2022-05-01T09:14:56","modified_gmt":"2022-05-01T16:14:56","slug":"book-noor-by-nnedi-okorafor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/2022\/05\/01\/book-noor-by-nnedi-okorafor\/","title":{"rendered":"Book: Noor by Nnedi Okorafor"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/covers.libro.fm\/9781666138320_400.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><figcaption>Audiobook cover at libro.fm<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Noor<\/strong><br>by Nnedi Okorafor<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.penguinrandomhouse.com\/books\/316943\/noor-by-nnedi-okorafor\/\">published by Penguin Random House<\/a><br>audiobook read by D\u00e9l\u00e9 Ogundiran<br>audiobook published by Tantor Media, Inc.<br>2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This amazing African Futurist novel engrossed me completely this weekend!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>AO has a many cybernetic enhancements, having been born with life-threatening birth defects, and having further been maimed in an unexplained autonomous vehicle accident.  She&#8217;s followed her fianc\u00e9 to a new city, made a life for herself, improved her body, and found a meaningful profession.  After a rough day coping with the abrupt end of her engagement, she just wants to have a nice dinner.  At her local market, however, locals who have been radicalized by a passing imam against the evils of cybernetics have other plans for her&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a time of environmental devastation, oppressive corporate monopolies, and wireless energy transmission, AO finds herself on the run with a nomadic herdsman, a bloody nose, and an increasing awareness of the surveillance technologies that have infused every element of Nigerian society.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The tech is great; the inserted documentary about how some of the tech was invented is engaging and wonderful; the the environments, both urban and desert, are well described; the cosmopolitan people, the languages, the different traditions, the meals &#8211; all are vividly and richly laid out in world building of great depth for such a brief and satisfying novel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I recommend <em><strong>Noor<\/strong><\/em> highly to everyone who likes a great, earth-bound, science-fiction story in a vivid near-future that never lets up the pace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Noorby Nnedi Okoraforpublished by Penguin Random Houseaudiobook read by D\u00e9l\u00e9 Ogundiranaudiobook published by Tantor Media, Inc.2021 This amazing African Futurist novel engrossed me completely this weekend! AO has a many cybernetic enhancements, having been born with life-threatening birth defects, and having further been maimed in an unexplained autonomous vehicle accident. She&#8217;s followed her fianc\u00e9 to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/2022\/05\/01\/book-noor-by-nnedi-okorafor\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Book: Noor by Nnedi Okorafor&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[191,8],"class_list":["post-2073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-african-futurism","tag-science-fiction"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2073"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2075,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2073\/revisions\/2075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}