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Title:

LaGuardia : a very modern story of immigration / writer, Nnedi Okorafor ; artist, Tana Ford ; colorist, James Devlin ; letterer, Sal Cipriano.

Author:

Okorafor, Nnedi author.

Ford, Tana, artist.

Devlin, James (Comic book artist), colourist.

Cipriano, Sal, letterer.

ISBN:

9781506710754

Personal Author:

Okorafor, Nnedi author.

Physical Description:

1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly color illustrations ; 26 cm

Content Type:

text

Media Type (RDA):

unmediated

Carrier Type:

volume

Form of Work:

Graphic novels lcgft

General Note:

"This volume collects Issues #1-4 of LaGuardia."

Contents:

Homecoming -- The travel ban -- Roots -- Future citizen.

Abstract:

"In an alternate world where aliens have integrated with society, pregnant Nigerian-American doctor Future Nwafor Chukwuebuka has just smuggled an illegal alien plant named Letme Live through LaGuardia International and Interstellar Airport ... and that's not the only thing she's hiding. She and Letme become part of a community of human and alien immigrants; but as their crusade for equality continues and the birth of her child nears, Future -- and her entire world -- begins to change."-- Provided by publisher.

"On a planet Earth bursting with integrated extraterrestrial life, Future Nwafor Chukwuebuka is running from Nigeria under mysterious conditions. She's five months pregnant, her fiance doesn't know she's left ... and she's smuggling an illegal, sentient plant into New York."--Provided by publisher.

Subject Term:

Graphic novels.

Extraterrestrial beings -- Comic books, strips, etc.

Emigration and immigration -- Comic books, strips, etc.

Genre:

Comics (Graphic works)

Science fiction comics.

Added Author:

Ford, Tana,

Devlin, James (Comic book artist),

Cipriano, Sal,

Format:

Books

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Summary

Set in an alternative world where aliens have come to Earth and integrated with society, LaGuardia revolves around a pregnant Nigerian-American doctor, Future Nwafor Chukwuebuka who has just returned to NYC under mysterious conditions, who smuggles an illegal alien plant named 'Letme Live' through customs and security. There, she and Letme become part of a growing population of mostly African and shape-shifting alien immigrants, battling against interrogation, discrimination and travel bans, as they try to make it in a new land.

Author Notes

Nnedi Okorafor is an international award-winning novelist of African-based science fiction, fantasy and magical realism for both children and adults. Born in the United States to two Nigerian immigrant parents, Nnedi is known for weaving African culture into creative evocative settings and memorable characters. In a profile of Nnedi's work titled, "Weapons of Mass Creation", The New York Times called Nnedi's imagination "stunning".Nnedi's books include: Lagoon (a British Science Fiction Association Award finalist for Best Novel), Who Fears Death (a World Fantasy Award winner for Best Novel), The Book of Phoenix (an Arthur C. Clarke Award finalist), The Binti Trilogy (the first of which won both the Hugo and Nebula Awards for Best Novella and the second which is a Hugo Award finalist), Chicken in the Kitchen (winner of an Africana Book Award), Kabu Kabu (A Publisher's Weekly Best Book for Fall 2013), The Akata series (Akata Warrior being a finalist for the World Science Fiction Society Award), Zahrah the Windseeker (winner of the Wole Soyinka Prize for African Literature), The Shadow Speaker (a CBS Parallax Award winner), Long Juju Man (winner of the Macmillan Writers' Prize for Africa), Comics: Black Panther: Long Live the King (Marvel) Antar: the Black Knight (IDW/Mirage Films) LaGuardia (Dark Horse Comics) Wakanda Forever (Marvel)

Reviews (2)

Publisher's Weekly Review

The Trump administration's travel ban gets incisive sci-fi treatment in Hugo and Nebula award-winning author Okorafor's tale of extraterrestrial immigrants. In a near-future New York, a Nigerian-American doctor named Future has a baby on the way whose parentage is "complicated." She flees strife in Lagos and lands at LaGuardia smuggling an "illegal" refugee in her bag-a sentient universe-traveling plant whose species was wiped out by genocide. It names itself Letme Live and takes root in the yard of Future's grandmother's building. Later, Future returns to the airport to join massive protests, which include sides both for and against strict new immigration laws that ban aliens and human citizens of certain countries (who are suspected of having alien blood) from traveling to America. The political-is-personal narrative, wittily illustrated by Ford with vivid colors by Devlin, mixes playful contemporary references with the Afrofuturistic inspiration of Octavia Butler. "Aliens are people too," reads a banner clutched by a four-armed blobby creature; another proclaims "Octavia warned us." The aliens arrive in all shapes and sizes, and bring new biotechnologies, but struggle to coexist in peace. Like the best sci-fi, the storytelling speaks to the heart of current debates, as Future and her growing family fight to create a world-or even just find an apartment-where they can all survive (July) © Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.

Library Journal Review

Here, the stigmatized immigrant aliens are aliens from outer space, the Nigerians are the good guys, a family's "putting down roots" acquires novel implications, prosthetic body parts bypass the usual assumptions, and genocide turns up where you least expect it. This playful allegory joins evocative, beautiful art with a wild imagination and mind-bending plot that comes off as both sad and hopeful. A creative commentary on xenophobia and recent U.S. immigration bans.