{"product_id":"jamaica-ginger-and-other-concoctions-9781616964269","title":"Jamaica Ginger and Other Concoctions","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eCaribbean-Canadian author Nalo Hopkinson \u003c\/i\u003e(Brown Girl in the Ring)\u003ci\u003e is an internationally beloved storyteller. This long-awaited new collection of her deeply imaginative short fiction offers striking journeys to far-flung futures and fantastical landscapes.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e[STARRED REVIEW] \"A joyous celebration of Hopkinson's abiding legacy as a titan of both speculative fiction and Caribbean literature.\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e--\u003cb\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e[STARRED REVIEW] \"A commanding short story collection.\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e--\u003cb\u003eForeword\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn Nalo Hopkinson's first collection of stories since 2015, a woman and her cyborg pig eke out a living in a future waterworld; two scientists contemplate the cavernous remains of an alien life-form; a trans woman at a funeral might be haunted by more than just bad memories; and an artist creates nanotechnology that asserts Blackness where it is least welcome and most needed.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHailed by the \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e as having \"an imagination that most of us would kill for,\" Hopkinson and her Afro-Caribbean, Canadian, and American influences shine in truly unique stories that are gorgeously strange, inventively subversive, and vividly beautiful.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eInternationally renowned Nalo Hopkinson was born in Kingston, Jamaica, and also spent her childhood in Trinidad and Guyana before her family moved to Toronto, Canada, when she was sixteen. In 1997, Hopkinson won the Warner Aspect contest for \u003ci\u003eBrown Girl in the Ring\u003c\/i\u003e, and she received the John W. Campbell and Locus Awards for Best First Novel. Her collection \u003ci\u003eSkin Folk\u003c\/i\u003e received the World Fantasy and Sunburst Awards. \u003ci\u003eThe Salt Roads\u003c\/i\u003e received the Gaylactic Spectrum Award for positive exploration of queer issues in speculative fiction. \u003ci\u003eThe New Moon's Arms\u003c\/i\u003e also won the Prix Aurora and Sunburst Awards, making Hopkinson the first author to receive the award twice. In 2020, Hopkinson was named the Damon Knight Grand Master by the Science Fiction Writers of America, and is the youngest and the first woman of African descent to receive this lifetime honor. As a professor of Creative Writing at the University of California Riverside, she was a member of the Speculative Futures Collective. Hopkinson is currently a professor in the School of Creative Writing at the University of British Columbia, and she lives in Vancouver, Canada.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Tachyon Publications","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50878412914962,"sku":"9781616964269","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_31fe8137-5e79-4a7a-84e6-7414d59447a9.jpg?v=1738300165","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/jamaica-ginger-and-other-concoctions-9781616964269","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}