The Turning of Sally-Mae launches a revenge story between Texas and African deities

[Nuzo Onoh’s The Turning of Sally-Mae is published today in the UK and US](https://titanbooks.com/72858-the-turning-of-sally-mae/). Titan’s 320-page paperback brings together a woman’s pursuit of revenge, a healer whose gift consumes her own strength, and rival powers with designs on two unborn children. It is an adult supernatural horror story whose starting point includes sexual violence and abuse.

Nuzo Onoh’s The Turning of Sally-Mae is published today in the UK and US. Titan’s 320-page paperback brings together a woman’s pursuit of revenge, a healer whose gift consumes her own strength, and rival powers with designs on two unborn children. It is an adult supernatural horror story whose starting point includes

sexual violence and abuse. Sally-Mae Jenkins is sent away from Texas aboard an African missionary ship after being assaulted by the sons of a wealthy rancher. In the village where she arrives, Amara can draw illness out of other people, but pays for that ability with her youth and vitality. Their paths collide as the

deity Asata and the death-associated Aja-Mmọ struggle over Sally-Mae’s twins. The release offers readers an Onoh novel built around the cost of survival and vengeance, with its conflicts moving between human cruelty and divine ambition. Image: Titan Books / Nuzo Onoh; official cover.

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