
Brown Girl in the Ring
Nalo Hopkinson
(Author)Description
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.
Product Details
Publisher | Grand Central Publishing |
Publish Date | July 01, 1998 |
Pages | 256 |
Language | English |
Type | |
EAN/UPC | 9780446674331 |
Dimensions | 8.0 X 5.2 X 0.8 inches | 0.6 pounds |
About the Author
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.
Reviews
"An impressive debut precisely because of Hopkinson's fresh viewpoint."--The Washington Post
"Excellent...a bright, original mix of future urban decay and West Indian magic...strongly rooted in character and place."--Sunday Denver Post
"Hopkinson lives up to her advance billing."--New York Times Book Review
"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
"Splendid....Superbly plotted and redolent of the rhythms of Afro-Caribbean speech."--Kirkus Review
"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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