Nalo Hopkinson
Paperback | Pages: 250 pages Rating: 3.86 | 4392 Users | 559 Reviews
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| Original Title: | Brown Girl in the Ring |
| ISBN: | 0446674338 (ISBN13: 9780446674331) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Setting: | Toronto, Ontario(Canada) |
| Literary Awards: | Locus Award for Best First Novel (1999), Philip K. Dick Award Nominee (1999), Golden Duck Award Nominee (1999), Warner Aspect First Novel Contest (1997), James Tiptree Jr. Award Nominee (1998) Prix Aurora Award Nominee for Best Long-Form Work in English (2000) |
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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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| Title | : | Brown Girl in the Ring |
| Author | : | Nalo Hopkinson |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 250 pages |
| Published | : | July 1st 1998 by Grand Central Publishing |
| Categories | : | Fantasy. Fiction. Science Fiction. Dystopia. Urban Fantasy. Speculative Fiction |
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Ratings: 3.86 From 4392 Users | 559 ReviewsCriticism Based On Books Brown Girl in the Ring
I think I was mostly disappointed by this book because I came to it with really high expectations - I'd read some great reviews of it, comparing Hopkinson favorably to Octavia Butler, etc.Well, both writers are black and tend to write about black characters, but there the similarity ends.This is a reasonably entertaining voodoo adventure story... a young Canadian woman of Caribbean descent, Ti-Jeanne, must take care of her baby, ditch the loser drug-addict boyfriend she's in love with, learn toEven though some of the SciFi/Dystopian aspects did not make sense to me, it not prevent me from enjoying the novel.The magical elements and the use of Afro-Caribbean folklore and spiritual beliefs made it a compelling read. This was a reread for me and I enjoyed it every much as I did the first time around. Nalo Hopkinson is a gifted writer and I've loved everything I've read from her!
I sat down to read Nalo Hopkinson's Brown Girl in the Ring because it is on a CBC Books List of 100 Novels That Make You Proud To Be A Canadian. I'm working my way through it, slowly, although it is annoying that it skews so heavily towards the recent. And there are certain other themes that I am less than happy about.Note: The rest of this review has been withheld due to the changes in Goodreads policy and enforcement. You can read why I came to this decision here.In the meantime, you can read
I enjoyed the folk religion blended with the use of magic. She drew on a vast culture but never info dumped and kept the pace moving. The worldbuilding and political commentary were subtle and on point. She effectively skewers white privilege and makes her case for a very real and disturbing future. A novel of redemption for some and despair for others. But her skill as a novelist keeps you guessing who the saved and who the damned will be.
Wow wow wow. Ive encountered Carribean folklore before but never so fleshed out and multi faceted as in this book, where spirits have personality and thought and wants and wishes, all the things I love about Greek and Nordic mythology as well.Brown Girl in the Ring is an apt title for our MC who unwillingly finds herself in the middle of a fight between her ex and his drug lord, the dark magic the boss meddles in, and her own private family drama of a missing mother and a grandmother whos intend
A story so original, Brown Girl In the Ring is hard to classify. I have never heard of Caribbean magic realism. To me this is more sci-fi with a twist of magic. The bleak Toronto hellscape of the future is completely believable, as are the characters who have a complex outer and inner life. None are more complicated than our heroine, Ti-Jeanne. She is a strong girl, devoted to her new baby and her grandmother, but also resentful of them some times. The made up language flows and sounds right to
This book is by a Canadian- Caribbean writer and its creative, fresh and *new* for being eleven years old. So Ive got another new to me favorite writer. The ring of the title is the suburbs that the wealthy and middle class fled Toronto to and have taken with them the police, government and left it in the hands of an organized drug lord. Rudy calls on Caribbean dark spirits (obeah) to consolidate his power, but his ex-wife Mami Gros- Jeanne, her daughter Mi-Jeanne and granddaughter Ti-Jeanne
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