Under Glass

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.