Summary
“We’d had to be cut free of our mother’s womb. She’d never have been able to push the two-headed sport that was me and Abby out the usual way. Abby and I were fused, you see. Conjoined twins. Abby’s head, torso and left arm protruded from my chest. But here’s the real kicker; Abby had the magic, I didn’t. Far as the Family was concerned, Abby was one of them, though cursed, as I was, with the tragic flaw of mortality.”
SISTER MINENow adults, Makeda and Abby still sh…Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781455528400 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1455528404 |
| Author: | Nalo Hopkinson |
| Publisher: | Grand Central Publishing |
| Imprint: | Grand Central Publishing |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 336 |
| Release Date: | 10 December 2013 |
| Weight: | 299g |
| Dimensions: | 22mm x 135mm x 201mm |
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Critics Review
“With sly humor and great tenderness, Hopkinson draws out the hope residing in age and change.”– Toronto Globe and Mail on The New Moon’s Arms
Acclaimed novelist Nalo Hopkinson is well-known for her unique postmodern mythos, often drawing on Caribbean folklore, and placing complex characters smack in the center of worlds whose magic isn’t always kind and in which decisions are rarely easy. Her newest novel, Sister Mine, has a lighter edge than some of her previous work; it’s an engaging, messy fable about the interconnectedness of even the little things in our lives…This is a book about family, and Sister Mine remains a suitably imperfect and vibrant story of family in all its unfathomable wonders and annoyances, and the power it holds over us - or gives us. - NPR
She’s a powerful writer with an imagination that most of us would kill for. I have read everything she has written and am in awe of her many gifts. And her protagonists are unforgettable - formidable haunted women drawn with an almost unbearable honesty - seriously, who writes sisters like Nalo? Takes courage to be that true. - Junot Diaz, in the LA TimesHopkinson’s most wildly imaginative novel since Brown Girl in the Ring…. and some of her most accomplished prose to date; at one point, she conveys the multivalent perceptions of Makeda through stunning passages of pure synaesthesia. - LocusWhile the fantastical is ever-present, it’s the personal and familial that make Sister Mine engaging and captivating. Self-doubt, interpersonal conflict and the struggle for acceptance are just as powerful as the novel’s magical objects. Hopkinson’s deeply saturated, poetic language is perfect to relate this story, which is deeply felt. - Globe and Mail (Toronto)The comingling of the fantastical and the real world in this urban fantasy is seamless and surprisingly credible … complex relationships and knotty family ties, all with a tasty supernatural flavor. - School Library Journal blogHopkins writes in the tradition of African-American science fiction authors like Samuel R. Delany and Octavia Butler, but her approach is singularly expansive, a mythography of the black diaspora. (There are parallels with fellow Caribbean native Junot Diaz’s work, not to mention King Rat, China Mieville’s similarly musical urban fantasy.) … Hopkinson’s prose intermingles the quotidian settings and cosmic mysticism with sly, assured ease. - National Post (Canada)Hopkinson is extremely talented at crafting complicated protagonists, and Makeda is no exception…Her books always feel like glimpses into worlds that are fully detailed and stand on their own…Another great novel from one of the best fantasy authors working today. - io9.comNalo Hopkinson
Nalo Hopkinson was born in Jamaica and has lived in Guyana, Trinidad, and Canada. The daughter of a poet/playwright and a library technician, she has won numerous awards including the John W. Campbell Award, the World Fantasy Award, and Canada’s Sunburst Award for literature of the fantastic. Her award-winning short fiction collection Skin Folk was selected for the 2002 New York Times Summer Reading List and was one of the New York Times Best Books of the Year. Hopkinson is also the author of The New Moon’s Arms, The Salt Roads, Midnight Robber, and Brown Girl in the Ring. She is a professor of creative writing at the University of California, Riverside, and splits her time between California, USA, and Toronto, Canada.
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