http://www.inotherwords.org/event/feed September 10, 2010 - October 10, 2010 en http://www.inotherwords.org/event/feministqueer-science-fictionfantasy-reading-group-2 <div class="start">Start: Wed, 09/15/2010 - 6:00pm</div> <div class="end">End: Wed, 09/15/2010 - 8:00pm</div> <p> September's book is Brown Girl in the Ring by Nalo Hopkinson. </p> <p> This is Nalo Hopkinson's debut novel, which came to attention when it<br /> won the Warner Aspect First Novel Contest. It tells the story of<br /> Ti-Jeanne, a young woman in a near-future Toronto that's been all but<br /> abandoned by the Canadian government. Anyone who can has retreated from<br /> the chaos of the city to the relative safety of the suburbs, and those<br /> left in &quot;the burn&quot; must fend for themselves. Ti-Jeanne is a new mother<br /> who's trying ...to<br /> come to grips with her as- yet-unnamed baby and also trying to end her<br /> relationship with her drug-addict boyfriend Tony. But a passion still<br /> burns between the young lovers, and when Tony runs afoul of Rudy, the<br /> local ganglord, Ti-Jeanne convinces her grandmother Gros-Jeanne to help<br /> out. Gros-Jeanne is a Voudoun priestess, and it's clear that Ti-Jeanne<br /> has inherited some of her gifts. Although Ti-Jeanne wants nothing to do<br /> with the spirit world, she soon finds herself caught up in a battle to<br /> the death with Rudy and the mother she thought she lost long ago. </p> Wed, 25 Aug 2010 21:34:55 -0400