Phoenix was grown and raised among other genetic experiments
in New York’s Tower 7. She is an “accelerated woman”—only two years old but
with the body and mind of an adult, Phoenix’s abilities far exceed those of a
normal human. Still innocent and inexperienced in the ways of the world, she is
content living in her room speed reading e-books, running on her treadmill, and
basking in the love of Saeed, another biologically altered human of Tower 7.
Then one evening, Saeed witnesses something so terrible that he takes his own
life. Devastated by his death and Tower 7’s refusal to answer her questions,
Phoenix finally begins to realize that her home is really her prison, and she
becomes desperate to escape.
But Phoenix’s escape, and her destruction of Tower 7, is just the beginning of
her story. Before her story ends, Phoenix will travel from the United States to
Africa and back, changing the entire course of humanity’s future.
Okorafor, Nnedi. (2015). The Book of Phoenix. New York: DAW.
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