Book Review
Jan. 10th, 2022 09:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kenjariBrown Girl in the Ring
by Nalo Hopkinson
This inventive novel is set in a near future Toronto in which the rich and privileged have fled to the suburbs, leaving the core of the city to crumble into a somewhat post-apocalyptic urban wasteland where the poor and disadvantaged have been left to fend for themselves. Ti-Jeanne, a young single mother, lives with her grandmother, who functions as a local wise-woman and healer and is also a practitioner of African diaspora religion. When the local crime boss starts dealing in illicit human organs for transplant, Ti-Jeanne must unravel her family's tragedy and tap into her own metaphysical powers to defeat the evil in her city.
I enjoyed this novel a lot. I liked that it was based on Caribbean culture and beliefs, as I am not as familiar with them. I really liked Ti-Jeanne. She was a complicated and sometimes reluctant heroine, conflicted over the responsibilities of motherhood, chafing a bit at the family bonds, and trying to deal with her feelings for a man she knows is bad for her.
by Nalo Hopkinson
This inventive novel is set in a near future Toronto in which the rich and privileged have fled to the suburbs, leaving the core of the city to crumble into a somewhat post-apocalyptic urban wasteland where the poor and disadvantaged have been left to fend for themselves. Ti-Jeanne, a young single mother, lives with her grandmother, who functions as a local wise-woman and healer and is also a practitioner of African diaspora religion. When the local crime boss starts dealing in illicit human organs for transplant, Ti-Jeanne must unravel her family's tragedy and tap into her own metaphysical powers to defeat the evil in her city.
I enjoyed this novel a lot. I liked that it was based on Caribbean culture and beliefs, as I am not as familiar with them. I really liked Ti-Jeanne. She was a complicated and sometimes reluctant heroine, conflicted over the responsibilities of motherhood, chafing a bit at the family bonds, and trying to deal with her feelings for a man she knows is bad for her.
