Book Review: After the Rain by Nnedi Okorafor

After the Rain
by Nnedi Okorafor (YA Okorafor)

 

Many of Nnedi Okorafor’s books are already short enough for my short attention span, even when they involve a little bit of world-building. This graphic adaptation of her short story “On the Road” finds a Nigerian-American woman visiting her home country, and what happens when a young man visits her doorstep with a dire warning. This graphic novel is definitely graphic in its violence, but it is mostly supernatural forces at work rather than humans hurting each other. There is a long span of horror, some blood and guts in the middle of the book, but the resolution of the harm is slightly less scary.

 

(If you enjoy this, you may also wish to try Nnedi Okorafor’s Binti series, The Sacrifice of Darkness by Roxane Gay, The Low, Low Woods by Carmen Maria Machado, and The Parable of the Sower or Kindred, both by Octavia Butler, illustrated by John Jennings.)

 

( publisher’s official After the Rain web page ) | ( official Nnedi Okorafor web site )

 

Recommended by Naomi S.
Eiseley Branch Library

 

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