Author:
Newland, Courttia, author.
Physical Description278 pages ; 24 cm
Note:"Published in Great Britain by Canongate Books"--Title page verso.
Note:Percipi -- Cirrostratus -- Scarecrow -- Cosmogramma -- Buck -- Control -- You meets you -- Seed -- Dark matters -- Nocturne -- Nommo -- The Sankofa principle -- Link -- The difference between me and you -- Utoma.
Note:"In his exquisite first collection of speculative fiction, Courttia Newland envisages an alternate future as lived by the African diaspora. Kill parties roam the streets of a post-apocalyptic world; a matriarchal race of mer creatures depends on interbreeding with mortals to survive; mysterious seeds appear in cities across the world, growing into the likeness of people in their vicinity. Through transfigured bodies and impossible encounters, Newland brings a sharp, fresh eye to age-old themes of the human capacity for greed, ambition, and self-destruction, but ultimately of our strength and resilience"--Inside jacket.
