Brown Girl in the Ring
(OverDrive MP3 Audiobook, OverDrive Listen)
Published:
Recorded Books, Inc. 2001
Accelerated Reader:
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure:
690L
Status:
Available from OverDrive
Description
To uncover the future voices of science fiction, Time Warner Publishing sponsored a contest that attracted hundreds of submissions. Brown Girl in the Ring was the winning entry, announcing author Nalo Hopkinson to the world as a tremendous new talent. It is the 21st century, and due to the economic breakdown and rising crime rate, nearly every citizen has fled Toronto. The city is a slum, populated by the homeless, the poor, and criminals like Rudy, who uses the power of voodoo to help him control the booming drug market. But also left behind are people like Ti-Jeanne, who hope to use voodoo to help rebuild the city, even as Canada's privileged population turns to Toronto to begin harvesting human organs.
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Format:
OverDrive MP3 Audiobook, OverDrive Listen
Edition:
Unabridged
Street Date:
01/18/2001
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781449872489
Accelerated Reader:
UG
Level 5, 10 Points
Level 5, 10 Points
Lexile measure:
690
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APA Citation (style guide)
Nalo Hopkinson. (2001). Brown Girl in the Ring. Unabridged Recorded Books, Inc.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Nalo Hopkinson. 2001. Brown Girl in the Ring. Recorded Books, Inc.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Nalo Hopkinson, Brown Girl in the Ring. Recorded Books, Inc, 2001.
MLA Citation (style guide)Nalo Hopkinson. Brown Girl in the Ring. Unabridged Recorded Books, Inc, 2001.
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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.
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