Skin Folk, Nalo Hopkinson
Skin Folk, Nalo Hopkinson
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Skin Folk
Stories

Author: Nalo Hopkinson

Narrator: Bahni Turpin

Unabridged: 8 hr 33 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 10/08/2019

Synopsis

In Skin Folk, with works ranging from science fiction to Caribbean folklore, passionate love to chilling horror, Nalo Hopkinson is at her award-winning best spinning tales like "Precious," in which the narrator spews valuable coins and gems from her mouth whenever she attempts to talk or sing. In "A Habit of Waste," a self-conscious woman undergoes elective surgery to alter her appearance; days later she's shocked to see her former body climbing onto a public bus. In "The Glass Bottle Trick," the young protagonist ignores her intuition regarding her new husband's superstitions—to horrifying consequences.

Hopkinson's unique and vibrant sense of pacing and dialogue sets a steady beat for stories that illustrate why she received the 1999 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. Entertaining, challenging, and alluring, Skin Folk is not to be missed.

Contains mature themes.

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 Elle on January 24, 2023

Perhaps the only thing worse than fear is apathy. Fear makes us do horrible things to people. Apathy makes us allow horrible things to happen to them. When we act in fear, or when we don't act out of empathy, that is when we become the monster. Oh my god this was brilliant. This short sto......more

Goodreads review by Anthony on July 11, 2019

Nalo Hopkinson writes with an invigorating imagination, and an impressive breadth of subject matter and approach. These stories alternate between whimsy, horror, eroticism, and modern interpretations of Caribbean folklore. Not every story lands as well as the best of them, but the best of them are w......more

Goodreads review by Jaanaki on August 26, 2018

"Skin Folk",is an anthology of fifteen short stories based on Caribbean myth,culture ,tradition and folklore .Some of the stories are fabulist ,some have magical realism blended in ,some are based on folklore and some are pure science fiction.I will say that this is the best short story collection I......more

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