Nalo Hopkinson. (2013). Sister Mine. Grand Central Publishing.

Nalo Hopkinson. 2013. Sister Mine. Grand Central Publishing.

Nalo Hopkinson, Sister Mine. Grand Central Publishing, 2013.

Nalo Hopkinson. Sister Mine. Grand Central Publishing, 2013.

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   • bioText: 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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Nalo Hopkinson—winner of the John W. Campbell Award, the Sunburst Award, and the World Fantasy award (among others), and lauded as one of our "most inventive and brilliant writers" (New York Post)—returns with a new work exploring the relationship between two sisters in this richly textured and deeply moving novel.
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.
Now adults, Makeda and Abby still share their childhood home. The surgery to separate the two girls gave Abby a permanent limp, but left Makeda with what feels like an even worse deformity: no mojo....

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Nalo Hopkinson—winner of the John W. Campbell Award, the Sunburst Award, and the World Fantasy award (among others), and lauded as one of our "most inventive and brilliant writers" (New York Post)—returns with a new work exploring the relationship between two sisters in this richly textured and deeply moving novel.
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.
Now adults, Makeda and Abby still share their childhood home. The surgery to separate the two girls gave Abby a permanent limp, but 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, the god of growing things—a highly unusual childhood that made them extremely close. Ever since Abby's magical talent began to develop, though, in the form of an unearthly singing voice, the sisters have become increasingly distant.
Today, Makeda has decided it's high time to move out and make her own life among the other nonmagical, claypicken humans—after all, she's one of them. In Cheerful Rest, a run-down warehouse space, Makeda finds exactly what she's been looking for: an opportunity to live apart from Abby and begin building her own independent life. There's even a resident band, led by the charismatic (and attractive) building superintendent.
But when her father goes missing, Makeda will have to discover her own talent—and reconcile with Abby—if she's to have a hope of saving him . . .

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   • source: Toronto Star on The New Moon's Arms
   • content: A most impressive work . . . vivid and richly nuanced, utterly realistic yet still somehow touched with magic.
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   • source: Toronto Globe and Mail on The New Moon's Arms
   • content: With sly humor and great tenderness, Hopkinson draws out the hope residing in age and change.
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   • source: Locus on The New Moon's Arms
   • content: [A] considerable talent for character, voice, and lushly sensual writing . . . her most convincing and complex character to date.
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   • source: Junot Díaz, author of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao on The Salt Roads
   • content: A book of wonder, courage, and magic . . . an electrifying bravura performance by one of our most important writers.
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   • source: Kirkus Reviews (starred review) on The Salt Roads
   • content: Sexy, disturbing, touching, wildly comic. A tour de force from one of our most striking new voices in fiction.
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   • source: New York Times Book Review on Skin Folk
   • content: Vibrant . . . stunning . . . Hopkinson puts her lyrical gifts to good use.
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   • source: Booklist on Skin Folk
   • content: Hopkinson has already captured readers with her unique combination of Caribbean folklore, sensual characters, and rhythmic prose. These stories further illustrate her broad range of subjects.
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   • source: New York Times Book Review on Midnight Robber
   • content: Succeeds on a grand scale . . . Hopkinson's narrative voice has a way of getting under the skin.
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   • source: Publishers Weekly (starred review) on Midnight Robber
   • content: Rich and complex . . . Hopkinson owns one of the more important and original voices in SF.
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    • source: Sunday Denver Post on Brown Girl in the Ring
    • content: Excellent . . . a bright, original mix of future urban decay and West Indian magic . . . strongly rooted in character and place.
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    • source: Karen Joy Fowler, author of The Jane Austen Book Club on Brown Girl in the Ring
    • content: Utterly original . . . the debut of a major talent. Gripping, memorable, and beautiful.
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      March 11, 2013
      Makeda and Abby are twins who were conjoined at birth but separated, and now as an adult Makeda still feels they are emotionally conjoined. This convoluted story, peopled by a bewildering cast of shape-shifters, traces Makeda's quest for independence and her own mojo, apparently lost during the infant separation. It opens as Makeda looks for her own apartment without telling Abby she is leaving. The seedy place where she hopes to live has "Shine" (a kind of aura), a motley assortment of tenants, and "haint-proof" blue ceilings; however, it proves a poor safe haven as Makeda's shape-shifting haint—her "daemon"—regularly finds and torments her. When Makeda hears that her elderly father has disappeared, she joins Abby and her otherworldly relatives in searching for him and his soul. The story overflows with fantasy: the twins' mother happens to be a lake monster, a kudzu vine named Quashee takes possession of her father's soul, Makeda knits a flying carpet, and Abby dates a young man who used to be a guitar. Although Hopkinson (Brown Girl in the Ring) has a strong narrative voice in Makeda, she's so intent in creating unrelated fantastic situations and events that the book loses momentum and coherence before presenting a simplistic ending.

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      January 15, 2013
      Canadian science fiction/fantasy author Hopkinson (The Chaos, 2012, etc.) goes about five steps too far in this wildly overstuffed tale blending made-up nature mythology with a coming-of-age odyssey. Makeda and Abby are the daughters of a human woman and a demigod who rules all growing things, an illicit union that got Mom turned into a water monster dwelling in Lake Ontario and Dad temporarily exiled into human flesh. Moreover, the girls were born conjoined, and their surgical separation nearly led to Abby's death until Mom persuaded her brother-in-law, guardian of life and death, to give the baby another chance. The rest of Dad's family let that breach pass since Abby has mojo and could almost be a demigod, except she's mortal, while Makeda is a mere "claypicken" with no supernatural powers whatever and hence disdained by her celestial kin. If that sounds murky, it only gets murkier as we learn that the "haint" (ghost) that periodically attacks Makeda is actually her mojo, which got loose at birth and is now trying to rejoin her--but in the meantime Dad loaned her his mojo and won't get it back till she dies. Hopkinson has lost none of her gift for salty, Caribbean-Canadian talk--"those boho Obamanegroes with their braided hemp necklaces" being one of her funnier jabs--and the relationship between Makeda and Abby always rings true: resentment and anger enduringly intertwined with love and loyalty. But a fantasy setup that was overly elaborate to begin with gets increasingly absurd as one bizarre development follows another. It's regrettable, since there are a few gorgeous passages--particularly the one where Makeda rediscovers her mojo while making a magic carpet that doubles as a contemporary art project--that remind us how good this talented author can be when she disciplines her imagination just a tad. Excessive and overwrought, though Hopkinson's fans may love it anyway.

      COPYRIGHT(2013) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

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      October 15, 2012
      

      A World Fantasy Award winner and Nebula Award nominee, Hopkinson intriguingly envisions conjoined twins, one of whom loses her magic when she is separated from her sister. Family members shun the ordinary Makeda until her father shrugs off his human form and vanishes. Now it appears that Makeda may be the only one who can find him.

      Copyright 2012 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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1. • source: Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America
   • value: Nebula Award

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