“How to Get Back to the Forest”

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2014
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Dystopia in which young adults are kept in sex-segregated camps and are implanted with bugs to monitor them.

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46
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March 2014

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2014 Samatar, Sofia (b. 1971). “How to Get Back to the Forest.” Lightspeed 46 (March 2014) http://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/how-to-get-back-to-the-forest/ Rpt. in The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2015. Ed. Joe Hill (Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015), 1-13; and in her Tender: Stories (Easthampton, MA: Small Beer Press, 2017): 95-110. PSt

Dystopia in which young adults are kept in sex-segregated camps and are implanted with bugs to monitor them. The female author has an M.A. in African languages and literature and a doctorate in contemporary Arabic literature from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and is the Roop Distinguished Professor of English at James Madison University, where she teaches African literature, Arabic literature, and speculative fiction.

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Rpt. in The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2015. Ed. Joe Hill (Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015), 1-13; and in her Tender: Stories (Easthampton, MA: Small Beer Press, 2017): 95-110. 

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The female author (b. 1971) has an M.A. in African languages and literature and a doctorate in contemporary Arabic literature from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and is the Roop Distinguished Professor of English at James Madison University, where she teaches African literature, Arabic literature, and speculative fiction.

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