Brown Girl in the Ring

Name: Brown Girl in the Ring
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Author: Nalo Hopkinson
ISBN: 9781449801083

Author: Nalo Hopkinson

Narrator: Peter Jay Fernandez

Unabridged: 7 hr 54 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 02/05/2008

Categories: Fiction, Fantasy, Contemporary, African American & Black Fiction

Synopsis

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

About Nalo Hopkinson

Nalo Hopkinson is a novelist, editor, and short story writer. Her groundbreaking science fiction and fantasy features diverse characters and the mixing of folklore into her works. Hopkinson won the Warner Aspect First Novel contest for Brown Girl in the Ring, as well as the John W. Campbell and Locus Awards. Her novel Midnight Robber was a New York Times Notable Book and she has also received the Spectrum, Sunburst, Campbell, and Prix Aurora awards. Hopkinson currently teaches in the creative writing department at the University of California, Riverside.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Anthony on February 13, 2020

I’m a very big fan of Nalo Hopkinson, having absolutely loved her novel Midnight Robber, and having enjoyed many of her stories in her collection Skin Folk. This novel, her first, featured some of her best qualities: a vividly alive sense of place and culture, and a welcome willingness to blend the......more

Goodreads review by Allison on February 07, 2019

A near-dystopic version of Toronto with a strong Afro-Caribbean mythos makes for an original, violent and yet very human urban fantasy. CONTENT WARNING: (no actual spoilers, just a list of topics) (view spoiler)[ graphic violence, domestic violence, torture, body horror, animal slaughter, medical procedures, drug a (hide spoiler)]......more

Goodreads review by Althea on August 02, 2024

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......more

Goodreads review by YouKneeK on February 06, 2019

Brown Girl in the Ring is a standalone fantasy/horror book. This was my first time reading anything by Nalo Hopkinson. Even though I have a couple complaints, I enjoyed the story more and more as it progressed. There are a few POV characters, but mostly the story focuses on a young, single mother nam......more