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"“a two thousand year old tradition held on the first day of rainy season”"
"Something was wrong with everyone here. The Okeke didn’t look too bothered as they worked. And the Nuru weren’t openly cruel to them.It was confusing and strange”"

Who Fears Death is a science fantasy novel by Nigerian-American writer Nnedi Okorafor, published in 2010 by DAW, then an imprint of Penguin Books. It was awarded the 2011 World Fantasy Award for Best Novel, as well as the 2010 Carl Brandon Kindred Award "for an outstanding work of speculative fiction dealing with race and ethnicity." Okorafor wrote a prequel, the novel The Book of Phoenix, publish
"“a two thousand year old tradition held on the first day of rainy season”"
"You can bring life, and when you get old, that ability becomes something else even greater, more dangerous and unstable”"
"like someone with a highly contagious disease”"
"haunted by someone else’s demise”"
"is of the oldest evil deeper than humans”"
"became a different creature that day, not so human”"