by Nalo Hopkinson
In a post-riot Toronto that the rich and privileged have fled, barricaded, and left to crumble, the inner city has had to rediscover old ways: farming, barter and herb lore. Now the monied need a harvest of bodies, so they prey upon the helpless of the streets. With nowhere to turn, a young woman mu...
Brown Girl in the Ring is set in a future dystopian Toronto, where the wealthy have fled to the suburbs following a large-scale economic collapse fuelled by failed negotiations with local First Nations communities. Infused with magical realism, it follows Ti-Jeanne as she reconnects with her Caribb...
Excellent urban fantasy that mashes a devastated inner city Toronto with Caribbean spirituality and makes everything work. An engaging young heroine, lilting dialect that sings instead of stumbles, lots to like in Hopkinson's first novel.
A little like Emma Bull's Bone Dance, with dialogues written in dialects.
oronto has become a ruin, a dystopian city of extreme poverty. After the riots it was largely abandoned by the government - wealthy Torontonians fled to the outer ring, leaving the inner city core to descend into poverty and lawlessness Ti-Jeane lives in Toronto with her baby and her grandmother, ...
I'm not sure what to tag this book. It's a little science fiction, but only in setting. It's a lot fantasy, but that could easily be magic realism or urban fantasy. It's a bit of all those things. I am sure that I enjoyed reading Brown Girl in the Ring. While there are teasing gaps and sometimes a f...
These are Notes....rather than a fluid review. Be warned!:Aliens, not extraterrestrial.Cultural. Aliens in their own lands, their experiences as Outsiders while living in the Inner city. The OTHER SIDE, as it were.:TORONTO-in-the-Future. The privileged and monied classes fled the city, threw up barr...
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 r...
I met the author at ThinkGalacticon and really liked her, so I gave her first book a try. It's awful. I disliked all of the characters, the plot was so simple it was almost unreadable, and the dialog was in dialect, with which I have a real problem.
Loved the way this brought in a mythos I hadn't experienced before and made it relevant. I was able to follow and totally enjoy this novel. Go Nalo!
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