Brown Girl in the Ring Binding:Paperback reflection

reflection

and to fall in love

Alford reflects on growing up in a working-class family from the city of Syracuse

October 2023

the pieces in this stunning and illuminating new anthology offer broader and more inclusive definitions of what it can mean to be intimate with another person

Brown Girl in the Ring Binding:Paperback reflectionIn this "impressive debut" from award winning speculative fiction author Nalo Hopkinson, a young woman must solve the tragic mystery surrounding her family and bargain with the gods to save her city and herself. (The Washington Post) 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,