Brown Girl in the Ring

"Hopkinson lives up to her advance billing."-- New York Times Book Review "Hopkinson lives up to her advance billing." "New York Times Book Review"" "Utterly original....the debut of a major talent. Gripping, memorable, and beautiful."--Karen Joy Fowler, author of The Jane Austen Book Club "Splendid....Superbly plotted and redolent of the rhythms of Afro-Caribbean speech."--Kirkus Review "Hopkinson's writing is smooth and assured, and her characters lively and believable. She has created a vivid world of urban decay and startling, dangerous magic, where the human heart is both a physical and metaphorical key."--Publisher's Weekly "Hopkinson lives up to her advance billing."--New York Times Book Review "An impressive debut precisely because of Hopkinson's fresh viewpoint."--The Washington Post "A wonderful sense of narrative and a finely tuned ear for dialogue...balances a well-crafted and imaginative story with incisive social critique and a vivid sense of place."--Emerge "Excellent...a bright, original mix of future urban decay and West Indian magic...strongly rooted in character and place."--Sunday Denver Post "Hopkinson lives up to her advance billing." New York Times Book Review"