Brown Girl in the Ring
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- On Sale
- Jul 1, 1998
- Page Count
- 256 pages
- Publisher
- Grand Central Publishing
- ISBN-13
- 9780446674331
Price
$17.99Price
$23.99 CADFormat
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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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"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 Review
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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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