Edge of Here

Enter a world very close to our own . . .One in which technology can allow you to explore an alternate love-life with a stranger.Where you can experience the emotions of another person through a chip implanted in your brain.And where you can view snippets of a distant relative's life with a little help from your DNABut remember: these experiences will not be without consequences . . .In this stunning debut collection, Kelechi Okafor combines the ancient and the ultramodern to explore stories of contemporary Black womanhood. Uplifting, thought-provoking, sometimes chilling, these are tales not limited by our current reality, that will lead you right up to the Edge of Here...Some 5 ★ reviews from Edge of Here readers:'From start to finish I was captivated' ★★★★★ '5.0 out of 5 stars Soul Affirming! Spellbinding! Ethereal! An experience...' ★★★★★ 'If you have not yet experienced The Edge of Here, you are truly missing out!' ★★★★★ 'This anthology of short stories is nothing less than a masterpiece' ★★★★★ 'Every time I finished a chapter and thought I had found my favourite short story I would read the next chapter and be blown away again!' ★★★★★

Okafor's writing is bold and beautiful. Written with verve and heart, the stories are as incisive as they are thought provoking. In story after story, Okafor demonstrates an imagination that is not afraid to explore difficult questions. This is a book we need right now, As surreal as a season of Black Mirror, yet as telling regarding life as we know it. Okafor's Edge of Here pokes at our principles, twists our humour and holds us at the brink of reflection. A stunning debut, Finally, a new era of sci-fi is upon us. EoH takes you to an alternate & future universe that is strangely also very familiar and current. Simultaneously deep and casual, Kelechi has crafted quite a collection - for these times & times to come, With Edge of Here, Kelechi Okafor has crafted an interconnected world that is prescient and truthful in the way only fiction can be. These speculative parables are an invitation to meditate on where we are and where we are headed, in a unique voice that is determined in its directness but ever hopeful in its tone, Kelechi's words offer laser like accuracy and her stories penetrate straight into the areas that are missed in our lives due to the busyness of the everyday and their distractions. A must read for the hopeful!

Kelechi Okafor is a writer, presenter, actor and tour de force in challenging how we think about race and femininity in tandem, and is a regular media contributor.Her podcast "Say Your Mind" is centered around mental well-being. Kelechi has appeared on the BBC 3 show, Work It - which draws on her experience as a fitness expert and her work in pole dancing and twerking as a form of enabling for women to embrace their bodies and their sensuality, particularly with victims of abuse.Kelechi is also published in the illustrious anthology, IT'S NOT OK TO FEEL BLUE edited by Scarlett Curtis, and her short story is included in the WHO'S LOVING YOU anthology, published by Orion Books in 2021.Kelechi hosted Noughts + Crosses on "Obsessed With...." (the BBC Sounds companion podcast to the BBC1 prime time show), discussing topics in and around Malorie Blackman's best-selling book and its transition from page to screen.