Description
When enslaved people were brought from the western part of Africa to the Americas, they were forbidden to speak their native languages or practice their religions in the New World.
Author: Nalo Hopkinson
Publisher: Aspect
Published: 04/01/2003
Pages: 352
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.64lbs
Size: 8.18h x 5.24w x 0.93d
ISBN13: 9780446679299
ISBN10: 0446679291
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Fantasy | General
Author: Nalo Hopkinson
Publisher: Aspect
Published: 04/01/2003
Pages: 352
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.64lbs
Size: 8.18h x 5.24w x 0.93d
ISBN13: 9780446679299
ISBN10: 0446679291
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Fantasy | General
About the Author
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.