The UnfortunatesAn edgy, bitingly funny debut about a queer, half Nigerian college sophomore who, enraged and exhausted by the racism at her elite college, is determined to reveal the truth about The Unfortunates the unlucky subset of Black undergrads who Just. Keep. Disappearing. Sahara is Not Okay. Entering her sophomore year, she already feels like a failure: her body is too much, her love life is nonexistent, she's not Nigerian enough for her family, her grades

and NAACP Image Award finalist and ALA Alex and New England Book Award winner Tochi Onyebuchi delivers a sweeping science fiction epic in the vein of Samuel R

is suffering from PTSD

the lenient sentence sparked outrage in the Asian American community

and beyond--and an evocative meditation on belonging

Drawing from her experiences as a mother

The faucet flows like a waterfall

but also plenty that will hit you in the heart

New York Times & Sunday Times bestselling author of The Priory of the Orange Tree and The Bone Season

She is driven on by the certainty that a mother cannot be truly free without knowing what has become of her children

She dreams of a bigger life

which we've done a lot of over the past decade

she begins finding other unlikely survivors with little in common but the will to live