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3 Sections / Vijay Seshadri
Title : 3 Sections Material Type: printed text Authors: Vijay Seshadri, Author Publisher: Graywolf Press Publication Date: 2013 ISBN (or other code): 978-1-555-97716-0 Languages : English (eng) Descriptors: Immigration and Refugees Issues
Philosophy
PoetryAbstract: Vijay Seshadri’s new poetry is assured and expert, his line as canny as ever. In an array of poetic forms from the rhyming lyric to the philosophical meditation to the prose essay, 3 Sections confronts perplexing divisions of contemporary life—a wayward history, an indeterminate future, and a present condition of wanting to out-think time. This is an extraordinary book, witty and vivacious, by one of America’s best poets. 3 Sections [printed text] / Vijay Seshadri, Author . - [S.l.] : Graywolf Press, 2013.
ISBN : 978-1-555-97716-0
Languages : English (eng)
Descriptors: Immigration and Refugees Issues
Philosophy
PoetryAbstract: Vijay Seshadri’s new poetry is assured and expert, his line as canny as ever. In an array of poetic forms from the rhyming lyric to the philosophical meditation to the prose essay, 3 Sections confronts perplexing divisions of contemporary life—a wayward history, an indeterminate future, and a present condition of wanting to out-think time. This is an extraordinary book, witty and vivacious, by one of America’s best poets. Copies
Barcode Call number Media type Location Section Status FIC SES 2013 FIC SES 2013 Livre/Book QPIRG-McGill Fiction (QM) Available An Indoor Kind of Girl / Frankie Barnet
Title : An Indoor Kind of Girl Material Type: printed text Authors: Frankie Barnet, Author Publisher: Metatron Publication Date: 2016 Languages : English (eng) Descriptors: Fiction Keywords: indoor introvert Abstract: In Frankie Barnet's exquisite and funny debut collection of stories, characters stumble through their daily existence, frequently feeling confused, rejected, bored, disillusioned or misunderstood. An Indoor Kind of Girl [printed text] / Frankie Barnet, Author . - [S.l.] : Metatron, 2016.
Languages : English (eng)
Descriptors: Fiction Keywords: indoor introvert Abstract: In Frankie Barnet's exquisite and funny debut collection of stories, characters stumble through their daily existence, frequently feeling confused, rejected, bored, disillusioned or misunderstood. Copies
Barcode Call number Media type Location Section Status FIC BAR 2016 FIC BAR 2016 Livre/Book QPIRG-McGill Fiction (QM) Available At Night We Walk in Circles / Daniel Alarcon
Title : At Night We Walk in Circles Material Type: printed text Authors: Daniel Alarcon, Author Publisher: Riverhead Books Publication Date: 2013 ISBN (or other code): 978-1-594-63283-9 Languages : English (eng) Descriptors: Family and Relationships
FictionKeywords: actors, life changing events, traveling theater, South America Abstract: "Nelson’s life is not turning out the way he hoped. His girlfriend is sleeping with another man, his brother has moved away, leaving Nelson to care for their widowed mother, and his acting career can’t seem to get off the ground. That is, until he lands a starring role in the touring revival of the legendary play by the leader of the storied guerrilla theater troupe. It takes Nelson out of the shelter of the city and across a battle-scarred landscape he's never seen. With each performance, he grows closer to his fellow actors, becoming hopelessly entangled in their lives. Then during one memorable performance, a long-buried betrayal surfaces to force the troupe into chaos, and forces Nelson to face the shattering consequences that ca result from even our smallest choices." (from back cover) At Night We Walk in Circles [printed text] / Daniel Alarcon, Author . - New York : Riverhead Books, 2013.
ISBN : 978-1-594-63283-9
Languages : English (eng)
Descriptors: Family and Relationships
FictionKeywords: actors, life changing events, traveling theater, South America Abstract: "Nelson’s life is not turning out the way he hoped. His girlfriend is sleeping with another man, his brother has moved away, leaving Nelson to care for their widowed mother, and his acting career can’t seem to get off the ground. That is, until he lands a starring role in the touring revival of the legendary play by the leader of the storied guerrilla theater troupe. It takes Nelson out of the shelter of the city and across a battle-scarred landscape he's never seen. With each performance, he grows closer to his fellow actors, becoming hopelessly entangled in their lives. Then during one memorable performance, a long-buried betrayal surfaces to force the troupe into chaos, and forces Nelson to face the shattering consequences that ca result from even our smallest choices." (from back cover) Copies
Barcode Call number Media type Location Section Status FIC ALA 2013 FIC ALA 2013 Livre/Book QPIRG-McGill Fiction (QM) Available At the Bottom of the River / Jamaica Kincaid
Title : At the Bottom of the River Material Type: printed text Authors: Jamaica Kincaid, Author Publisher: Farrar, Giroux and Strauss Publication Date: 1983 ISBN (or other code): 978-0-374-52734-1 Languages : English (eng) Descriptors: Fiction Keywords: Fiction. Abstract: "Kincaid leads her readers to consider, as if for the first time, the powerful ties between mother and child; the beauty and destructiveness of nature; the gulf between the masculine and the feminine; the significance of familiar things--a house, a cup, a pen. Transfiguring our human form and our surroundings--shedding skin, darkening an afternoon, painting a perfect place--these stories tell us something we didn't know, in a way we hadn't expected." (From the back cover). At the Bottom of the River [printed text] / Jamaica Kincaid, Author . - [S.l.] : Farrar, Giroux and Strauss, 1983.
ISBN : 978-0-374-52734-1
Languages : English (eng)
Descriptors: Fiction Keywords: Fiction. Abstract: "Kincaid leads her readers to consider, as if for the first time, the powerful ties between mother and child; the beauty and destructiveness of nature; the gulf between the masculine and the feminine; the significance of familiar things--a house, a cup, a pen. Transfiguring our human form and our surroundings--shedding skin, darkening an afternoon, painting a perfect place--these stories tell us something we didn't know, in a way we hadn't expected." (From the back cover). Copies
Barcode Call number Media type Location Section Status FIC KIN 1983 FIC KIN 1983 Livre/Book QPIRG-McGill Fiction (QM) Available Ban en Banlieue / Bhanu Kapil
Title : Ban en Banlieue Material Type: printed text Authors: Bhanu Kapil, Author Publisher: Nightboat Books Publication Date: 2015 ISBN (or other code): 978-1-937658-24-3 Languages : English (eng) Descriptors: Black/Anti-Black
Feminisms
Fiction
Poetry
Women of ColourAbstract: Bhanu Kapil's Ban en Banlieue follows a brown (black) girl as she walks home from school in the first moments of a riot. An April night in London, in 1979, is the axis of this startling work of overlapping arcs and varying approaches. By the end of the night, Ban moves into an incarnate and untethered presence, becoming all matter— soot, meat, diesel oil and force—as she loops the city with the energy of global weather. Derived from performances in India, England and throughout the U.S., Ban en Banlieue is written at the limit of somatic and civic aims. - Publisher Ban en Banlieue [printed text] / Bhanu Kapil, Author . - [S.l.] : Nightboat Books, 2015.
ISBN : 978-1-937658-24-3
Languages : English (eng)
Descriptors: Black/Anti-Black
Feminisms
Fiction
Poetry
Women of ColourAbstract: Bhanu Kapil's Ban en Banlieue follows a brown (black) girl as she walks home from school in the first moments of a riot. An April night in London, in 1979, is the axis of this startling work of overlapping arcs and varying approaches. By the end of the night, Ban moves into an incarnate and untethered presence, becoming all matter— soot, meat, diesel oil and force—as she loops the city with the energy of global weather. Derived from performances in India, England and throughout the U.S., Ban en Banlieue is written at the limit of somatic and civic aims. - Publisher Copies
Barcode Call number Media type Location Section Status FIC KAP 2015 FIC KAP 2015 Livre/Book QPIRG-McGill Fiction (QM) Due for return by 06/24/2020 Beauty is a Verb / Jennifer Bartlett
Title : Beauty is a Verb : The New Poetry of Disability Material Type: printed text Authors: Jennifer Bartlett, Editor ; Sheila Black, Editor ; Michael Northen, Editor Publisher: Cinco Puntos Press Publication Date: 2011 Languages : English (eng) Descriptors: Disability/Ableism & Accessibility
PoetryAbstract: Beauty is a Verb is a ground-breaking anthology of disability poetry, essays on disability, and writings on the poetics of both. Crip Poetry. Disability Poetry. Poems with Disabilities. This is where poetry and disability intersect, overlap, collide and make peace. Beauty is a Verb : The New Poetry of Disability [printed text] / Jennifer Bartlett, Editor ; Sheila Black, Editor ; Michael Northen, Editor . - [S.l.] : Cinco Puntos Press, 2011.
Languages : English (eng)
Descriptors: Disability/Ableism & Accessibility
PoetryAbstract: Beauty is a Verb is a ground-breaking anthology of disability poetry, essays on disability, and writings on the poetics of both. Crip Poetry. Disability Poetry. Poems with Disabilities. This is where poetry and disability intersect, overlap, collide and make peace. Copies
Barcode Call number Media type Location Section Status FICBAR2011 FICBAR2011 Livre/Book QPIRG-McGill Fiction (QM) Available Becoming / Diane Anderson-Minshall
Title : Becoming : Young Ideas on Gender, Identity, and Sexuality Material Type: printed text Authors: Diane Anderson-Minshall, Editor Publisher: Xlibris Corporation Publication Date: 2004 ISBN (or other code): 978-1-413-45436-9 Languages : English (eng) Descriptors: Family and Relationships
Fiction
Gender and Sex
Poetry
Youth and TeenagersBecoming : Young Ideas on Gender, Identity, and Sexuality [printed text] / Diane Anderson-Minshall, Editor . - [S.l.] : Xlibris Corporation, 2004.
ISBN : 978-1-413-45436-9
Languages : English (eng)
Descriptors: Family and Relationships
Fiction
Gender and Sex
Poetry
Youth and TeenagersCopies
Barcode Call number Media type Location Section Status FIC AND 2014 FIC AND 2004 Livre/Book QPIRG-McGill Fiction (QM) Available Between the World and Me / Ta-Nehisi Coates
Title : Between the World and Me Material Type: printed text Authors: Ta-Nehisi Coates, Author Publisher: Spiegel & Grau Publication Date: 2015 ISBN (or other code): 978-0-8129-9354-7 Languages : English (eng) Descriptors: Black/Anti-Black
Family and Relationships
Fiction
Unpopular HistoryAbstract: In a profound work that pivots from the biggest questions about American history and ideals to the most intimate concerns of a father for his son, Ta-Nehisi Coates offers a powerful new framework for understanding our nation’s history and current crisis. Americans have built an empire on the idea of “race,” a falsehood that damages us all but falls most heavily on the bodies of black women and men—bodies exploited through slavery and segregation, and, today, threatened, locked up, and murdered out of all proportion. What is it like to inhabit a black body and find a way to live within it? And how can we all honestly reckon with this fraught history and free ourselves from its burden?
Between the World and Me is Ta-Nehisi Coates’s attempt to answer these questions in a letter to his adolescent son. Coates shares with his son—and readers—the story of his awakening to the truth about his place in the world through a series of revelatory experiences, from Howard University to Civil War battlefields, from the South Side of Chicago to Paris, from his childhood home to the living rooms of mothers whose children’s lives were taken as American plunder. Beautifully woven from personal narrative, reimagined history, and fresh, emotionally charged reportage, Between the World and Me clearly illuminates the past, bracingly confronts our present, and offers a transcendent vision for a way forward. - PublisherBetween the World and Me [printed text] / Ta-Nehisi Coates, Author . - [S.l.] : Spiegel & Grau, 2015.
ISBN : 978-0-8129-9354-7
Languages : English (eng)
Descriptors: Black/Anti-Black
Family and Relationships
Fiction
Unpopular HistoryAbstract: In a profound work that pivots from the biggest questions about American history and ideals to the most intimate concerns of a father for his son, Ta-Nehisi Coates offers a powerful new framework for understanding our nation’s history and current crisis. Americans have built an empire on the idea of “race,” a falsehood that damages us all but falls most heavily on the bodies of black women and men—bodies exploited through slavery and segregation, and, today, threatened, locked up, and murdered out of all proportion. What is it like to inhabit a black body and find a way to live within it? And how can we all honestly reckon with this fraught history and free ourselves from its burden?
Between the World and Me is Ta-Nehisi Coates’s attempt to answer these questions in a letter to his adolescent son. Coates shares with his son—and readers—the story of his awakening to the truth about his place in the world through a series of revelatory experiences, from Howard University to Civil War battlefields, from the South Side of Chicago to Paris, from his childhood home to the living rooms of mothers whose children’s lives were taken as American plunder. Beautifully woven from personal narrative, reimagined history, and fresh, emotionally charged reportage, Between the World and Me clearly illuminates the past, bracingly confronts our present, and offers a transcendent vision for a way forward. - PublisherCopies
Barcode Call number Media type Location Section Status FIC COA 2015 FIC COA 2015 Livre/Book QPIRG-McGill Fiction (QM) Due for return by 09/14/2016 Binti / Nnedi Okorafor
Title : Binti Material Type: printed text Authors: Nnedi Okorafor, Author Publisher: TOR Publication Date: 2015 Pagination: 90 ISBN (or other code): 978-0-7653-8525-3 Languages : English (eng) Descriptors: Fiction
Women of ColourKeywords: race sci-fi fantasy space Abstract: She left her home for the stars, but found more adventure than she bargained for. A tense and intimate coming-of-age story in space.
Her name is Binti, and she is the first of the Himba people ever to be offered a place at Oomza University, the finest institution of higher learning in the galaxy. But to accept the offer will mean giving up her place in her family to travel between the stars among strangers who do not share her ways or respect her customs.
Knowledge comes at a cost, one that Binti is willing to pay, but her journey will not be easy. The world she seeks to enter has long warred with the Meduse, an alien race that has become the stuff of nightmares. Oomza University has wronged the Meduse, and Binti's stellar travel will bring her within their deadly reach.
If Binti hopes to survive the legacy of a war not of her making, she will need both the gifts of her people and the wisdom enshrined within the university itself - but first she has to make it their alive.Binti [printed text] / Nnedi Okorafor, Author . - [S.l.] : TOR, 2015 . - 90.
ISBN : 978-0-7653-8525-3
Languages : English (eng)
Descriptors: Fiction
Women of ColourKeywords: race sci-fi fantasy space Abstract: She left her home for the stars, but found more adventure than she bargained for. A tense and intimate coming-of-age story in space.
Her name is Binti, and she is the first of the Himba people ever to be offered a place at Oomza University, the finest institution of higher learning in the galaxy. But to accept the offer will mean giving up her place in her family to travel between the stars among strangers who do not share her ways or respect her customs.
Knowledge comes at a cost, one that Binti is willing to pay, but her journey will not be easy. The world she seeks to enter has long warred with the Meduse, an alien race that has become the stuff of nightmares. Oomza University has wronged the Meduse, and Binti's stellar travel will bring her within their deadly reach.
If Binti hopes to survive the legacy of a war not of her making, she will need both the gifts of her people and the wisdom enshrined within the university itself - but first she has to make it their alive.Copies
Barcode Call number Media type Location Section Status FIC OKO 2015 FIC OKO 2015 Livre/Book QPIRG-McGill Fiction (QM) Available Birdie / Tracey Lindberg
Title : Birdie Material Type: printed text Authors: Tracey Lindberg, Author Publisher: Harper Collins Ltd. Publication Date: 2015 ISBN (or other code): 978-1-443-45135-2 Languages : English (eng) Descriptors: Fiction
Indigenous Peoples and First Peoples
Indigenous StudiesAbstract: Birdie is a darkly comic and moving first novel about the universal experience of recovering from wounds of the past, informed by the lore and knowledge of Cree traditions. Bernice Meetoos, a Cree woman, leaves her home in Northern Alberta following tragedy and travels to Gibsons, BC. She is on something of a vision quest, seeking to understand the messages from The Frugal Gourmet (one of the only television shows available on CBC North) that come to her in her dreams. She is also driven by the leftover teenaged desire to meet Pat Johns, who played Jesse on The Beachcombers, because he is, as she says, a working, healthy Indian man. Bernice heads for Molly’s Reach to find answers but they are not the ones she expected.
With the arrival in Gibsons of her Auntie Val and her cousin Skinny Freda, Bernice finds the strength to face the past and draw the lessons from her dreams that she was never fully taught in life. Part road trip, dream quest and travelogue, the novel touches on the universality of women's experience, regardless of culture or race.Birdie [printed text] / Tracey Lindberg, Author . - [S.l.] : Harper Collins Ltd., 2015.
ISBN : 978-1-443-45135-2
Languages : English (eng)
Descriptors: Fiction
Indigenous Peoples and First Peoples
Indigenous StudiesAbstract: Birdie is a darkly comic and moving first novel about the universal experience of recovering from wounds of the past, informed by the lore and knowledge of Cree traditions. Bernice Meetoos, a Cree woman, leaves her home in Northern Alberta following tragedy and travels to Gibsons, BC. She is on something of a vision quest, seeking to understand the messages from The Frugal Gourmet (one of the only television shows available on CBC North) that come to her in her dreams. She is also driven by the leftover teenaged desire to meet Pat Johns, who played Jesse on The Beachcombers, because he is, as she says, a working, healthy Indian man. Bernice heads for Molly’s Reach to find answers but they are not the ones she expected.
With the arrival in Gibsons of her Auntie Val and her cousin Skinny Freda, Bernice finds the strength to face the past and draw the lessons from her dreams that she was never fully taught in life. Part road trip, dream quest and travelogue, the novel touches on the universality of women's experience, regardless of culture or race.Copies
Barcode Call number Media type Location Section Status FIC LIN 2015 FIC LIN 2015 Livre/Book QPIRG-McGill Fiction (QM) Available Black Kripple Delivers Poetry & Lyrics / Leroy Franklin Moore Jr.
Title : Black Kripple Delivers Poetry & Lyrics Material Type: printed text Authors: Leroy Franklin Moore Jr., Author Publisher: Poetic Matrix Press Publication Date: 2015 ISBN (or other code): 978-0-986060-08-3 Languages : English (eng) Descriptors: Black Studies
Black/Anti-Black
Disability/Ableism & Accessibility
PoetryKeywords: Black Disability Abstract: Poetry. African American Studies. Music. Disability Studies. BLACK KRIPPLE DELIVERS POETRY & LYRICS is straight up an activist/love book of original poems and song lyrics that have been written and collected for almost two decades. Many poems in this book were first published in 1999 in a chapbook by Poor Magazine's Poor Press. Most of the poems and lyrics touch on issues that Black disabled people deal with but only get a little media attention. In this book you will find true stories of discrimination, cases of police brutality, love songs for the Black disabled community and for the author's family. Black Kripple Delivers Poetry & Lyrics [printed text] / Leroy Franklin Moore Jr., Author . - [S.l.] : Poetic Matrix Press, 2015.
ISBN : 978-0-986060-08-3
Languages : English (eng)
Descriptors: Black Studies
Black/Anti-Black
Disability/Ableism & Accessibility
PoetryKeywords: Black Disability Abstract: Poetry. African American Studies. Music. Disability Studies. BLACK KRIPPLE DELIVERS POETRY & LYRICS is straight up an activist/love book of original poems and song lyrics that have been written and collected for almost two decades. Many poems in this book were first published in 1999 in a chapbook by Poor Magazine's Poor Press. Most of the poems and lyrics touch on issues that Black disabled people deal with but only get a little media attention. In this book you will find true stories of discrimination, cases of police brutality, love songs for the Black disabled community and for the author's family. Copies
Barcode Call number Media type Location Section Status FIC MOO 2015 FIC MOO 2015 Livre/Book QPIRG-McGill Fiction (QM) Available Bodymap / Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Title : Bodymap : Poems Material Type: printed text Authors: Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Author Publisher: Mawenzi House Publication Date: 2015 ISBN (or other code): 978-1-927494-50-9 Languages : English (eng) Descriptors: Feminisms
Fiction
Lesbian, Bisexual, and Gay
Poetry
QueerAbstract: In Bodymap, Lambda Award-winner Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha sings a queer disabled femme of colour love song filled with hard femme poetics. The first book of the author to examine disability from a queer femme-of-colour lens, Bodymap maps luscious and vulnerable terrains of queer desire, survivorhood, transformative love, sick and disabled queer genius and all the homes we claim, make and deserve. - Book Jacket Bodymap : Poems [printed text] / Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Author . - [S.l.] : Mawenzi House, 2015.
ISBN : 978-1-927494-50-9
Languages : English (eng)
Descriptors: Feminisms
Fiction
Lesbian, Bisexual, and Gay
Poetry
QueerAbstract: In Bodymap, Lambda Award-winner Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha sings a queer disabled femme of colour love song filled with hard femme poetics. The first book of the author to examine disability from a queer femme-of-colour lens, Bodymap maps luscious and vulnerable terrains of queer desire, survivorhood, transformative love, sick and disabled queer genius and all the homes we claim, make and deserve. - Book Jacket Copies
Barcode Call number Media type Location Section Status FIC PIE 2015 FIC PIE 2015 Livre/Book QPIRG-McGill Fiction (QM) Due for return by 09/14/2016 Bottle Rocket Hearts / Zoe Whittall
Title : Bottle Rocket Hearts Material Type: printed text Authors: Zoe Whittall, Author Publisher: Cormorant Books Publication Date: 2007 ISBN (or other code): 978189715106 Languages : English (eng) Descriptors: Fiction
Queer
Youth and TeenagersAbstract: From the Feminist Review: If I were to describe Bottle Rocket Hearts as a sort of creative autobiography replete with journal excerpts and a first person narrator, which also reads like a queer coming of age novel, you probably wouldn?t want to read it. But for anyone who has ever tried to align their politics with their personal life and discovered a plethora of limits and contradictions, this book will be a fun, fast-paced read. And it has punk rock bulging from the seams and postmodern emotional conundrums that will resonate with those who have tried to live in uncharted territory. Having read Zoe Whittal?s tightly crafted tale, I?ve had to reassess my position on the idea that diaries are cheesy and coming of age novels are boring. Bottle Rocket Hearts suggests otherwise. Bottle Rocket Hearts [printed text] / Zoe Whittall, Author . - [S.l.] : Cormorant Books, 2007.
ISSN : 978189715106
Languages : English (eng)
Descriptors: Fiction
Queer
Youth and TeenagersAbstract: From the Feminist Review: If I were to describe Bottle Rocket Hearts as a sort of creative autobiography replete with journal excerpts and a first person narrator, which also reads like a queer coming of age novel, you probably wouldn?t want to read it. But for anyone who has ever tried to align their politics with their personal life and discovered a plethora of limits and contradictions, this book will be a fun, fast-paced read. And it has punk rock bulging from the seams and postmodern emotional conundrums that will resonate with those who have tried to live in uncharted territory. Having read Zoe Whittal?s tightly crafted tale, I?ve had to reassess my position on the idea that diaries are cheesy and coming of age novels are boring. Bottle Rocket Hearts suggests otherwise. Copies
Barcode Call number Media type Location Section Status FIC WHI 2007 m FIC WHI 2007 m Livre/Book QPIRG-McGill Fiction (QM) Available FIC WHI 2007 FIC WHI 2007 Livre/Book QPIRG-Concordia Fiction - QC Available Breath, Eyes, Memory / Edwidge Danticat
Title : Breath, Eyes, Memory Material Type: printed text Authors: Edwidge Danticat, Author Publisher: Soho Press, Inc. Publication Date: 2005 ISBN (or other code): 978-1-616-95502-1 Languages : English (eng) Descriptors: Black/Anti-Black
Children
Fiction
Women of ColourKeywords: Haiti, supernatural, Abstract: "At the age of twelve, Sophie Caco is sent from her impoverished village of Croix-des-Rosets to New York, to be reunited with a mother she barely remembers. There she discovers secrets that no child should ever know, and a legacy of shame that can be healed only when she returns to Haiti--to the women who first reared her. What ensues is a passionate journey through a landscape charged with the supernatural and scarred by political violence, in a novel that bears witness to the traditions, suffering, and wisdom of an entire people" (from back cover) Breath, Eyes, Memory [printed text] / Edwidge Danticat, Author . - New York : Soho Press, Inc., 2005.
ISBN : 978-1-616-95502-1
Languages : English (eng)
Descriptors: Black/Anti-Black
Children
Fiction
Women of ColourKeywords: Haiti, supernatural, Abstract: "At the age of twelve, Sophie Caco is sent from her impoverished village of Croix-des-Rosets to New York, to be reunited with a mother she barely remembers. There she discovers secrets that no child should ever know, and a legacy of shame that can be healed only when she returns to Haiti--to the women who first reared her. What ensues is a passionate journey through a landscape charged with the supernatural and scarred by political violence, in a novel that bears witness to the traditions, suffering, and wisdom of an entire people" (from back cover) Copies
Barcode Call number Media type Location Section Status FIC DAN 2005 FIC DAN 2005 Livre/Book QPIRG-McGill Fiction (QM) Available Brown Girl in the RIng / Nalo Hopkinson
Title : Brown Girl in the RIng Material Type: printed text Authors: Nalo Hopkinson, Author Publisher: Grand Central Publishing Publication Date: 1998 ISBN (or other code): 978-0-446-67433-1 General note: Paper back Languages : English (eng) Descriptors: Fiction Keywords: Fiction, feminism, apocolypse Abstract: The rich and privileged have fled the city, barricaded it behind roadblocks, and left it to crumble. The inner city has had to rediscover old ways-farming, barter, herb lore. But now the monied need a harvest of bodies, and so they prey upon the helpless of the streets. With nowhere to turn, a young woman must open herself to ancient truths, eternal powers, and the tragic mystery surrounding her mother and grandmother.
She must bargain with gods, and give birth to new legends.Brown Girl in the RIng [printed text] / Nalo Hopkinson, Author . - [S.l.] : Grand Central Publishing, 1998.
ISBN : 978-0-446-67433-1
Paper back
Languages : English (eng)
Descriptors: Fiction Keywords: Fiction, feminism, apocolypse Abstract: The rich and privileged have fled the city, barricaded it behind roadblocks, and left it to crumble. The inner city has had to rediscover old ways-farming, barter, herb lore. But now the monied need a harvest of bodies, and so they prey upon the helpless of the streets. With nowhere to turn, a young woman must open herself to ancient truths, eternal powers, and the tragic mystery surrounding her mother and grandmother.
She must bargain with gods, and give birth to new legends.Copies
Barcode Call number Media type Location Section Status FIC HOP 1998 FIC HOP 1998 Livre/Book QPIRG-McGill Fiction (QM) Available