Under Glass

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By Nalo Hopkinson

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A breathtaking novel from the award-winning author Nalo Hopkinson about two women, two worlds, fated to encounter one another. 

Sheeny lives in a world scoured clean by the glass wind that comes roaring out of the empty space where a mountain used to be. A wind whose gusts can strip flesh from bone and whose breezes leave a dust of glass so fine it accumulates in the lungs with every sip of air.

Delpha lives in an otherwhere, an otherwhen in which no glass wind blows. Her world is poised on the precipice of its reality, needing only the faintest push to fall. And if that should happen, there will be no picking up the pieces.

Two women, two worlds, rush toward a shattering collision. Unless…

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Under Glass

Nalo Hopkinson

Sheeny lives in a world scoured clean by the glass wind that comes roaring out of the empty space where a mountain used to be. A wind whose gusts can strip flesh from bone and whose breezes leave a dust of glass so fine it accumulates in the lungs with every sip of air. Delpha lives in an otherwhere, an otherwhen in which no glass wind blows. Her world is poised on the precipice of its reality, needing only the faintest push to fall. And if that should happen, there will be no picking up the pieces. Two women, two worlds, rush toward a shattering collision. Unless . . .

 

"Hopkinson lives up to her advance billing."

The New York Times Book Review

 

Nalo Hopkinson was born in Jamaica and lives in Toronto, Canada. Her novel Brown Girl in the Ring won the Warner Aspect First Novel Contest and was published by Warner Books in 1998. She's a recipient of the Locus First Novel Award, the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, and the Ontario Arts Council Foundation Award for Emerging Artists. Her second novel, Midnight Robber, was published by Warner in March 2000. She's the editor of Whispers from the Cotton Tree Root: Caribbean Fabulist Fiction, from Invisible Cities Press, 2000.




Also by Nalo Hopkinson

Brown Girl in the Ring
Midnight Robber
Skin Folk


Boston subway stops have the oddest names: Braintree. And Alewife (which, Bostonians will explain helpfully, is a fish). One day, traveling on the Toronto subway system, I could have sworn that the driver announced Saint Mare Wash as the next stop. The mundane Saint Clair West paled in comparison. In parts of Toronto, they wrap the trees with burlap in winter to protect them. And then, I've always liked Hans Christian Andersen's fiction . . .


 

 

 

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On Sale
Mar 15, 2001
Page Count
18 pages
ISBN-13
9780759522091

Nalo Hopkinson

About the Author

Nalo Hopkinson was born in Jamaica and has lived in Guyana, Trinidad, and Canada. The daughter of a poet/playwright and a library technician, she has won numerous awards including the John W. Campbell Award, the World Fantasy Award, and Canada’s Sunburst Award for literature of the fantastic. Her award-winning short fiction collection Skin Folk was selected for the 2002 New York Times Summer Reading List and was one of the New York Times Best Books of the Year. Hopkinson is also the author of The New Moon’s Arms, The Salt Roads, Midnight Robber, and Brown Girl in the Ring. She is a professor of creative writing at the University of California, Riverside, and splits her time between California, USA, and Toronto, Canada.

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