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As a big fan of Nnedi Okorafor, I picked this one up immediately! We follow AO, who goes by the initials of her given name. While she is shopping in a near-future Nigerian market, a bloody run-in turns her into a target then a fugitive. So, AO flees her home for the desert in hopes of avoiding capture. While out there, she meets alone herdsman called DNA and his two cows. We follow the two as they decide to embark into the Red Eye together.

I enjoyed this novel! And even though the first half seemed to lack direction, I enjoyed the pacing and there is this abrupt violence to AO and DNA's meeting and alternations with suspicious and aggressive people that make for a bold introduction to the story and characters.

I loved the themes and conversation posed in this story. It's criticism on overreaching government and its conversation on taking down corporate, capitalist interests. As well as privacy, environmentalism, corporate power structures. But at the end of the day, this was a compelling story about two people just trying to survive in a world seeking to destroy them. As usual, Okorafor really knows how to pack a short piece of speculative science fiction full.

I'm interested to hear how folks with physical disabilities and prosthetic limbs feel about AO's body alterations and disabilities and that representation.