![]() The strange alien life form falls from the stars and into the sea around Nigeria, cleansing it and giving it new life. Instead they find themselves alive and unhurt back on the beach after a strange encounter with extraterrestrials, an encounter that changes each of them unequivocally, and sets them on a path to save the city of Lagos, in Nnedi Okorafor’s novel Lagoon. “Fast and quiet as a whisper,” a huge wave drags them into the water, as if “the ocean had opened its great maw and swallowed” them. Each is there searching for solace, each with her or his distinct, complicated life. ![]() ![]() ![]() A scientist with a tumultuous marriage, a rap star trying to find quiet and a military man desperate to contact his family. THREE strangers on a beach in Lagos, Nigeria. ![]()
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