# Riot Baby - Hardcover

by **Tochi Onyebuchi** (Author)

**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**  
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Named a Best of 2020 Pick for _NPR_ _Wired Book Riot_ _Publishers Weekly_ _NYPL_ _The Austen Chronicle Kobo_ _Google_ _Play_ _Good Housekeeping_ _Powell's Books_ _Den of Geek_**

**"****_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.

### Author Biography

Tochi Onyebuchi is the author of the young adult novel _Beasts Made of Night_, which won the Ilube Nommo Award for Best Speculative Fiction Novel by an African, its sequel, _Crown of Thunder_, and _War Girls_. He holds a B.A. from Yale, a M.F.A. in screenwriting from the Tisch School for the Arts, a Master's degree in droit économique from Sciences Po, and a J.D. from Columbia Law School. His fiction has appeared in _Panverse Three_, _Asimov's Science Fiction_, _Obsidian_, _Omenana_ Magazine, _Uncanny_, and _Lightspeed_. His non-fiction has appeared in Tor.com, _Nowhere_ Magazine, the Oxford University Press blog, and the Harvard Journal of African American Public Policy, among other places. _Riot Baby_ is his adult fiction debut.

**Number of Pages:** 176

**Dimensions:** 0.8 x 8.3 x 5.3 IN

**Publication Date:** January 21, 2020

**Award:** Alex Awards (2021)

**Award:** Hugo Award (2021)

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