![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Her schoolmates tease her, and her father wishes she hadn’t been born. She looks Nigerian, speaks perfect Igbo, and is a talented soccer player – but she is so sensitive to the sun that she can only play at night, and she must spend her days beneath a black umbrella or tucked away inside. Three years later the story opens with her still struggling to fit in. The book is about an albino girl named Sunny, who was born in the US to Nigerian parents, and taken home to West Africa when she was 9 years old. Le Guin and Diana Wynne Jones on it’s cover? Jackpot! A Nigerian-American female author whose book – Akata Witch – had commendations from both Ursula K. I remembered that I wanted to read a book by Ruth Ozeki, which brought me to the 7 or so books in the ‘O’ section, and my eyes tangled with ‘Okorafor’. None of the other books I had picked for #Diversiverse had made their way to me yet, so last Thursday I stood in the YA section of the Lawrenceville branch of the Pittsburgh Carnegie Library and just scanned the shelves for non-white-sounding authors’ names. ![]()
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