Winner of the 2021 World Fantasy Award
Winner of an 2021 ALA Alex Award
Winner of the 2020 New England Book Award for Fiction
Winner of the 2021 Ignyte Award
Winner of the 2021 **AABMC Literary Award
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A 2021 Finalist for the NAACP Image Award for Best Outstanding Work of
Literary Fiction
A 2021 Hugo Award Finalist
A 2021 Nebula Award Finalist
A 2021 Locus Award Finalist
A Goodreads Choice Awards Finalist
**A Most Anticipated in 2020 Pick for Book Riot Buzzfeed Paste
WBUR
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Named a Best of 2020 Pick for NPR Wired Book Riot Publishers
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**Riot Baby, Onyebuchi's first novel for adults, is as much the story
of Ella and her brother, Kevin, as it is the story of black pain in
America, of the extent and lineage of police brutality, racism and
injustice in this country, written in prose as searing and precise as
hot diamonds.--*The New York Times
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Riot Baby bursts at the seams of story with so much fire, passion and
power that in the end it turns what we call a narrative into something
different altogether.--Marlon James
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Ella has a Thing. She sees a classmate grow up to become a caring nurse.
A neighbor's son murdered in a drive-by shooting. Things that haven't
happened yet. Kev, born while Los Angeles burned around them, wants to
protect his sister from a power that could destroy her. But when Kev is
incarcerated, Ella must decide what it means to watch her brother suffer
while holding the ability to wreck cities in her hands.
Rooted in the hope that can live in anger, Riot Baby is as much an
intimate family story as a global dystopian narrative. It burns
fearlessly toward revolution and has quietly devastating things to say
about love, fury, and the black American experience.
Ella and Kev are both shockingly human and immeasurably powerful. Their
childhoods are defined and destroyed by racism. Their futures might
alter the world.
