Death of An Author Event - Detroit

We are delighted to host Nnedi Okorafor and celebrate her new book Death of the Author on Friday January 17th at the Detroit Food Commons. If you are readers of her books Bindi Triology, Remote Control or Noor or fans of Science Fiction , Fantasy you are in for treat.

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About the Event:

This author event will include a rich conversation about Death of the Author, a Question & Answer session and a booksinging line.

It is never too early to secure your book/seat or gift a ticket to this event. At this link you can purchase a book ticket. The ticket includes admission to the book event and a copy of Death of the Author newly released limited edition book.This author event will include a rich conversation about Death of the Author, a Question & Answer session and a booksinging line. Book ticket attendees will recieve a DELUXE LIMITED EDITION of Death of the Author that includes special alternate cover design on the hardcover case, gorgeous sprayed edges, and exclusive endpapers! If you purchase the book ticket by purchasing a book online with us, your book will be headed out at the event. All event books will be distrubed at the beginning of the event.

About the Book:

In this exhilarating tale by New York Times bestselling and award-winning author Nnedi Okorafor, a disabled Nigerian American woman pens a wildly successful Sci-Fi novel, but as her fame rises, she loses control of the narrative—a surprisingly cutting, yet heartfelt drama about art and love, identity and connection, and, ultimately, what makes us human. This is a story unlike anything you’ve read before.

A book-within-a-book that blends the line between writing and being written, Death of the Author is a masterpiece of metafiction that manages to combine the razor-sharp commentary of Yellowface with the heartfelt humanity of Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow. Surprisingly funny, deeply poignant, and endlessly discussable, this is at once the tale of a woman on the margins risking everything to be heard and a testament to the power of storytelling to shape the world as we know it.

About the Author

Nnedi Okorafor is the author of multiple award-winning and New York Times bestsellers, including the Binti trilogy, Who Fears Death, and Lagoon, currently in development at Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Entertainment. She has won every major prize in speculative fiction, including the World Fantasy, Nebula, and Eisner Awards; multiple Hugo Awards; and the Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature in Africa. Born in Cincinnati to Igbo Nigerian immigrant parents, she now resides in Phoenix, Arizona, with her daughter, Anyaugo.

" Don't be frieghtened by the title. Nnedi Okorafor is fine. ... and her best work yet.

Death of the Author reads like three novels in one, or maybe four , about fame, and family,

Culture and Change, the power of story, the writer's life and robots. This one has it all."

- George R. R. Martin

“It’s a cumulative narrative, a slow burn that builds in emotional urgency even as the scope of Okorafor’s worldbuilding bursts into something breathtakingly vast.” -NPR on Remote Control

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Detroit Food Commons, 8324 Woodward Avenue, Detroit, United States