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Brown Girl in the Ring

by Nalo Hopkinson
Brown Girl in the Ring

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ISBN13: 9780446674331
ISBN10: 0446674338
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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.

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"Excellent...a bright, original mix of future urban decay and West Indian magic...strongly rooted in character and place." Sunday Denver Post

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"A wonderful sense of narrative and a finely tuned ear for dialogue...balances a well-crafted and imaginative story with incisive social critique and a vivid sense of place." Emerge

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"An impressive debut precisely because of Hopkinson's fresh viewpoint." The Washington Post

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"Hopkinson lives up to her advance billing." New York Times Book Review

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"Hopkinson's writing is smooth and assured, and her characters lively and believable. She has created a vivid world of urban decay and startling, dangerous magic, where the human heart is both a physical and metaphorical key." Publisher's Weekly

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"Splendid....Superbly plotted and redolent of the rhythms of Afro-Caribbean speech." Kirkus Reviews

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"Utterly original....the debut of a major talent. Gripping, memorable, and beautiful." Karen Joy Fowler, author of The Jane Austen Book Club


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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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Christin , August 07, 2012 (view all comments by Christin)
I really enjoyed this book. Hopkinson's use of language is very vivid and creative. You don't see a lot of Caribbean-style magical realism in the speculative fiction genre, so this book is a unique and interesting addition. Exciting, fun story.

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EmilyMB , September 29, 2011 (view all comments by EmilyMB)
This was a really fun book. Post-apocalyptic (well, kinda - it was a slow, economic apocalypse) Toronto is a vivid and interesting setting, from the drug-dealing gangs to the nice old couple selling squirrel meat in the park to get by. The protagonist, Ti-Jeanne, is a young woman tough enough to survive here, but still overwhelmed and uncertain about things as a lot of young people are. She keeps forgiving her drug-dealing ex-boyfriend when she probably shouldn't, is stressed about the new baby, and her relationship with her grandmother Gros-Jeanne is complicated by Ti-Jeanne's wanting nothing to do with her grandmother's Caribbean religious practices. (Her mother Mi-Jeanne has been missing for years.) Then a politician living outside the Burn, in a nicer area of Toronto, decides a porcine hear transplant just isn't good enough for her and tasks a gang leader with fetching a nice, fresh human one - no questions asked. Unfortunately, he turns the job over to one of his dealers, Toby, who happens to be Ti-Jeanne's ex-boyfriend. To shake things up even more, Ti-Jeanne starts realizing that the loa her grandmother worships are real, and they want something from her...

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ISBN:
9780446674331
Binding:
Trade Paperback
Publication date:
07/01/1998
Publisher:
HACHETTE BOOK GROUP
Pages:
256
Height:
.80IN
Width:
5.20IN
Thickness:
1.75
Number of Units:
1
Copyright Year:
1998
UPC Code:
2800446674333
Author:
Nalo Hopkinson
Subject:
Science Fiction and Fantasy-A to Z
Subject:
Toronto (Ont.) Fiction.
Subject:
Fantasy
Subject:
Science fiction
Subject:
Fiction

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