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This is Nalo Hopkinson's debut novel, which came to attention when it won the Warner Aspect First Novel Contest. It tells the story of Ti-Jeanne, a young woman in a near-future Toronto that's been all but abandoned by the Canadian government. Anyone who can has retreated from the chaos of the city to the relative safety of the suburbs, and those left in "the burn" must fend for themselves. Ti-Jeanne is a new mother who's trying to come to grips with her as- yet-unnamed baby and also trying to end her relationship with her drug-addict boyfriend Tony. But a passion still burns between the young lovers, and when Tony runs afoul of Rudy, the local ganglord, Ti-Jeanne convinces her grandmother Gros-Jeanne to help out. Gros-Jeanne is a Voudoun priestess, and it's clear that Ti-Jeanne has inherited some of her gifts. Although Ti-Jeanne wants nothing to do with the spirit world, she soon finds herself caught up in a battle to the death with Rudy and the mother she thought she lost long ago. --Craig E. Engler
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The musical rhythms of Caribbean voices and the earthy spirit-magic of obeah knit together this unusual fantasy, the first winner of Warner Aspect's First Novel Contest. Toronto in the next century is a "doughnut hole city," its core collapsed into ruinous slums after much of the population left to escape rising urban crime and violence. Those who remain in the Burn are survivors like Ti-Jeanne and her grandmother Mami, who trade herbal cures and spells for necessities, or predators like drug-lord Rudy and the "posse" of men, including Ti-Jeanne's ex-lover Tony, who sell "buff" for him. Outside the Burn, Catherine Uttley, the premier of Ontario, needs a heart transplant and a boost in her approval ratings. To accomplish both, she announces support for a return to voluntary human organ donation, allegedly to prevent the spread of Virus Epsilon, sometimes found in the porcine organs grown for transplant. The heart she needs will have to come from someone in the Burn, and Rudy saddles Tony with the job of finding a donor. Tony has no stomach for the job, however, and goes to Ti-Jeanne and Mami for help, bringing the unpredictable and powerful spirits of Caribbean obeah into play. Though the story sometimes turns too easily on coincidence, 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.
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
A truely original book!,
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This review is from: Brown Girl in the Ring (Paperback)
I have only just recently read BROWN GIRL, although the book has been sitting on my bookshelf for more than two years. I had discovered Nalo, because of on interview she did with LOCUS Magazine a while back. This is a wonderful book whose story seems to be deceptively simple, but which is profound and moving. Hopkinson breathes new life into scienc-fiction. BROWN GIRL IN THE RING is a definitive must-read! By the way, don't forget to buy her other books as well: MIDNIGHT ROBBER and SKIN FOLK.
5.0 out of 5 stars
A truely original book!,
By A Customer
This review is from: Brown Girl in the Ring (Paperback)
I have only just recently read BROWN GIRL, although the book has been sitting on my bookshelf for more than two years. I had discovered Nalo, because of on interview she did with LOCUS Magazine a while back. This is a wonderful book whose story seems to be deceptively simple, but which is profound and moving. Hopkinson breathes new life into scienc-fiction. BROWN GIRL IN THE RING is a definitive must-read! By the way, don't forget to buy her other books as well: MIDNIGHT ROBBER and SKIN FOLK.
4.0 out of 5 stars
The spirit world working in the physical world,
By Raquel B. (Mount Vernon, New York USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Brown Girl in the Ring (Paperback)
This was a very well written sci-fi novel. I enjoyed the use of language to create imagery and a connectedness among people of color and poor peoples. I felt connected, concerned and dislike for all of the charachters. This was a powerful tale about a young woman learning to accept her strengths and her weaknesses in the spirit and physical world. I enjoyed her journey and will follow it in the next novel.
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