To engage with scenarios of extinction in a literary medium facilitates an affective sense of our entanglement both with the material of the Earth itself and with the other life-forms who inhabit the Earth along with us. Extinction narratives animate their own “geophenomenology,” in philosopher David Wood’s terms, emplacing us on the planet as one set of bodies among the many that are threatened when the environments upon which they are biologically and evolutionarily dependent are violently altered or demolished. In this paper, I examine the 2012 Arabic young adult science-fiction novel Ajwān by Emirati author Nūrah al-Nūmān as a work that invites readers to a geophenomenological awareness of the multispecies embodied stakes of ecological crisis on a planetary scale. The novel’s titular protagonist is the sole member of her species to escape aboard a spaceship when a meteor decimates her home planet. An anthropomorphic being adapted for an ocean environment, Ajwān struggles to acclimate to life on other worlds; with its excessively porous borders and constrained homeostatic requirements, her body is a liability in her ongoing efforts to ensure the continuation of her species. In conversation with contemporary critical debates over the representability of anthropogenic ecological crisis in fiction, I read al-Nūmān’s novel as a text that decenters humans from the story—or “history,” per Dipesh Chakrabarty—of the Anthropocene by figuring extinction imaginatively as an imminent risk to the nonhuman body.