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In this "impressive debut" from award-winning speculative fiction author Nalo Hopkinson, a young woman must solve the tragic mystery surrounding her family and bargain with the gods to save her city and herself. (The Washington Post)
The rich and privileged have fled the city, barricaded it behind roadblocks, and left it to crumble. The inner city has had to rediscover old ways -- farming, barter, herb lore. But now the monied need a harvest of bodies, and so they prey upon the helpless of the streets. With nowhere to turn, a young woman must open herself to ancient truths, eternal powers, and the tragic mystery surrounding her mother and grandmother. She must bargain with gods, and give birth to new legends.
The rich and privileged have fled the city, barricaded it behind roadblocks, and left it to crumble. The inner city has had to rediscover old ways -- farming, barter, herb lore. But now the monied need a harvest of bodies, and so they prey upon the helpless of the streets. With nowhere to turn, a young woman must open herself to ancient truths, eternal powers, and the tragic mystery surrounding her mother and grandmother. She must bargain with gods, and give birth to new legends.
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Keelyk1
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Likable charactersEasy to readFlowery
Tricia Dean
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Characters change and growDiverse charactersLikable charactersRelatable charactersBeautifully writtenConversationalOriginal writingComplexMind-bendingFuturistic
Paris Semansky
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“Ooo this was fun! I am doing the @the_fold reading challenge and February is a speculative fiction book by a Canadian Black author. Nalo Hopkinson is new to me, but I'm hooked now. Hopkinson's debut novel, BROWN GIRL IN THE RING, is set in a not-so-dystopic future, where the core of Toronto is hollowed out and everyone who can, has left for the suburbs. The feds have cut transfers to the provinces and provinces to the core of cities, and Toronto is a place where the lawless rule.
This coming-of-age and action-adventure story is layered with beautiful Caribbean folklore, traditions, language, and ceremony, and full of magic. It was immersive and rich with a premise that felt completely believable even when the action was other-worldly.”
MaureenC
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“I read this several years ago and it blew me away. Such an imaginative story.”
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About Nalo Hopkinson
Nalo Hopkinson was born in Jamaica and has lived in Guyana, Trinidad, and Canada. The daughter of a poet/playwright and a library technician, she has won numerous awards including the John W. Campbell Award, the World Fantasy Award, and Canada's Sunburst Award for literature of the fantastic. Her award-winning short fiction collection Skin Folk was selected for the 2002 New York Times Summer Reading List and was one of the New York Times Best Books of the Year.
Hopkinson is also the author of The New Moon's Arms, The Salt Roads, Midnight Robber, and Brown Girl in the Ring. She is a professor of creative writing at the University of California, Riverside, and splits her time between California, USA, and Toronto, Canada.
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