The Silence of the Lambs

When I was an adolescent -- till I was about thirty, I mean -- I probably would have liked Nnedi Okorafor's Akata Witch (Viking, 2011) a lot more than I do now. I picked it up at the library after seeing a review, because I'm always alert to fantasy from sources other than the usual Tolkienesque Northern Europe. (I've long noticed the irony in people who'll devour the latest Tolkien retread