Sister Mine, Nalo Hopkinson
Sister Mine, Nalo Hopkinson
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Sister Mine

Author: Nalo Hopkinson

Narrator: Robin Miles

Unabridged: 10 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/12/2013

Categories: Fiction, Fantasy


Synopsis

We'd had to be cut free of our mother's womb. Abby and I were fused, you see. But here's the real kicker; Abby had the magic, I didn't. Now adults, Makeda and Abby still share their childhood home. The surgery to separate the two girls left Makeda with what feels like an even worse deformity: no mojo. The daughters of a celestial demigod and a human woman, Makeda and Abby were raised by their magical father. Today, Makeda has decided it's high time to move out and make her own life. In Cheerful Rest, Makeda finds exactly what she's been looking for: an opportunity to live apart from Abby. But when her father goes missing, Makeda will have to discover her own talent if she's to have a hope of saving him...

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

When I was telling my girlfriend about Nalo Hopkinson’s urban fantasy, Sister Mine, she said it sounded like the author was on LSD when she was writing it. I think that’s a pretty apt description, and I mean that in the best way possible. Let’s see—what really epitomizes the wonderful oddities of th......more