Jamaica Ginger and Other Concoctions

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Caribbean-Canadian author Nalo Hopkinson (Brown Girl in the Ring, The Salt Roads, Falling in Love with Hominids) 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. Hopkinson is at the peak of her powers, ranging effortlessly between art, folklore, science, and magic. Hailed by the Los Angeles Times as having “an imagination that most of us would kill for,” Nalo Hopkinson and her Afro-Caribbean, Canadian, and American influences shine in truly unique stories that are gorgeously strange, inventively subversive, and vividly beautiful. In Hopkinson’s newest stories since 2015, a woman and her cyborg pig eke a living in a future waterworld; two scientists contemplate the cavernous remains of an alien lifeform; and an artist creates nanotechnology that asserts Blackness where it is least welcome. In her first collection since 2015, acclaimed Caribbean-Canadian author Nalo Hopkinson delivers diverse speculative stories that exist between folklore and science, creating her own fascinating new worlds and futures Hopkinson is a professor of Creative Writing currently teaching in Vancouver, British Columbia, and previously, in Riverside, California National marketing plan to include endorsements from leading U.S and Canadian authors, review, and media outlets, and general publications; online and print features; author events and book launch, Instagram and blog tour, Reddit AMA; ARC mailings and giveaways; and social media campaign