Jamaica Ginger and Other ConcoctionsJamaica Ginger and Other Concoctions

Caribbean-Canadian author Nalo Hopkinson (Brown Girl in the Ring) is an internationally beloved storyteller. This long-awaited new collection of her deeply imaginative short fiction offers striking journeys to far-flung futures and fantastical landscapes. Hopkinson is at the peak of her powers as she roams effortlessly between art, folklore, science, and magic. "Hopkinson's stories dazzle." -National Public Radio [STARRED REVIEW] "A commanding short story collection, Caribbean Canadian Nalo Hopkinson's Jamaica Ginger and Other Concoctions blends ecological awareness, cultural heritage, and fantastical happenings." -Foreword Hailed by the Los Angeles Times as having "an imagination that most of us would kill for," Nalo Hopkinson and her Afro-Caribbean, Canadian, and American influences shine in truly unique stories that are gorgeously strange, inventively subversive, and vividly beautiful. In Hopkinson's first collection of stories since 2015, a woman and her cyborg pig eke out a living in a future waterworld; two scientists contemplate the cavernous remains of an alien life-form; and an artist creates nanotechnology that asserts Blackness where it is least welcome. Internationally renowned Nalo Hopkinson was born in Kingston, Jamaica, and also spent her childhood in Trinidad and Guyana before her family moved to Toronto, Canada, when she was sixteen. In 1997, Hopkinson won the Warner Aspect contest for Brown Girl in the Ring, and she received the John W. Campbell and Locus Awards for Best First Novel. Her collection Skin Folk received the World Fantasy and Sunburst Awards. The Salt Roads received the Gaylactic Spectrum Award for positive exploration of queer issues in speculative fiction. The New Moon's Arms also won the Prix Aurora and Sunburst Awards, making Hopkinson the first author to receive the award twice. In 2020, Hopkinson was named the Damon Knight Grand Master by the Science Fiction Writers of America, and is the youngest and the first woman of African descent to receive this lifetime honor. As a professor of Creative Writing at the University of California Riverside, she was a member of the Speculative Futures Collective. Hopkinson is currently a professor in the School of Creative Writing at the University of British Columbia, and she lives in Vancouver, Canada. • In her first collection since 2015, acclaimed Caribbean-Canadian author Nalo Hopkinson delivers diverse speculative stories that exist between folklore and science, creating her own fascinating new worlds and futures • Hopkinson is a professor of Creative Writing currently teaching in Vancouver, British Columbia, and previously, in Riverside, California • National marketing plan to include endorsements from leading U.S and Canadian authors, review, and media outlets, and general publications; online and print features; author events and book launch, Instagram and blog tour, Reddit AMA; ARC mailings and giveaways; and social media campaign Introduction by Nalo Hopkinson "Quenching Our Story Thirst" by Nisi Shawl "And More Slow" "Can't Beat 'Em" "Child Moon" "Covenant" "Ally" "Broad Dutty Water: A Sunken Story" "Clap Back" "Pocket Universe" "Inselberg" "Jamaica Ginger" "Waving at Trains" "Repatriation" "San Humanité" "Whimper" "Propagation: A Short Story" "Jamaica Ginger is a powerful and salient reminder of just how amazing a storyteller we are graced with in the form of Nalo Hopkinson! This carefully curated collection is a tapestry of Nalo's mastery and truly displays what a master of the form can do." -John Jennings, New York Times bestselling author and Hugo Award-winning comics creator [STARRED REVIEW] "A commanding short story collection, Caribbean Canadian Nalo Hopkinson's Jamaica Ginger and Other Concoctions blends ecological awareness, cultural heritage, and fantastical happenings.