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Stranger to the Sea by Laurel Mojica is a compelling science fiction novel that explores the complex themes of identity, belonging, and defiance against authoritarian rule. –K.C. Finn
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The Pātru has decreed that Ki’ani is fully human. That everyone is. That Okānos don’t exist.
On the planet Vāni, there is only one continent: Oi’kumā. Ki’ani was born to rule it. She’s worked hard her whole life to live up to the Pātru’s image of a perfect Fi’lis: years of wearing compression clothing to “keep the shape of a little girl”, nights of enduring chemical burns in the school pool learning to keep chlorine out of her “thin skin”, never telling her true age, so no one can investigate her infancy or her mother’s disappearance.
Always being careful to look and act human, so no one can claim that she isn’t.
Except now that she’s leaving the capital to attend university on the Archipelago, Ki’ani wants to learn the truth. But she has to do it carefully, because it’s not just her own future that hangs in the balance. There are people in the Archipelago who don’t look quite human … and others willing to kill to ensure that their next ruler is.
…I’d give Mojica a whole bucket of stars if I could.
–Jamie Michele…it’s a must-read. Full of adventure, it takes the reader on a gripping journey with unexpected twists and turns in a flawlessly flowing plotline.
–Frank Mutuma