Nalo Hopkinson
Nalo Hopkinson is a Jamaican-born writer and editor who lives in Canada. Her science fiction and fantasy novels and short stories often draw on Caribbean history and language, and its traditions of oral and written storytelling.
Skin Folk
World Fantasy Award winner 2002, Sunburst Award nominee 2003.
A new collection of short stories from Hopkinson, including "Greedy Choke Puppy," which Africana.com called "a cleverly crafted West Indian story featuring the appearance of both the soucouyant (vampire) and lagahoo (werewolf)", "Ganger (Ball Lightning)," praised by the Washington Post Book World as written in "prose [that] is vivid and immediate," this collection reveals Hopkinson's breadth and accomplishments as a storyteller.
Contents:
- Riding the Red
- Money Tree
- Something to Hitch Meat To
- Snake
- Under Glass
- Glass Bottle Trick
- Slow Cold Chick
- Fisherman
- Tan-Tan and Dry Bone
- Greedy Choke Puppy
- A Habit of Waste
- And the Lillies-Them A-Blow
- Whose Upward Flight I Love
- Ganger (Ball Lightning)
- Precious
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