Entertaining, challenging, and alluring, Skin Folk is not to be missed. Hopkinson’s unique and vibrant sense of pacing and dialogue sets a steady beat for stories that illustrate why she received the 1999 John W. In “The Glass Bottle Trick,” the young protagonist ignores her intuition regarding her new husband’s superstitions-to horrifying consequences. In “A Habit of Waste,” a self-conscious woman undergoes elective surgery to alter her appearance days later she’s shocked to see her former body climbing onto a public bus. In Skin Folk, with works ranging from science fiction to Caribbean folklore, passionate love to chilling horror, Nalo Hopkinson is at her award-winning best spinning tales like “Precious,” in which the narrator spews valuable coins and gems from her mouth whenever she attempts to talk or sing. The SFWA Grand Masters award-winning collection 'combines a richly textured multicultural background with incisive storytelling' (Library Journal).
Everything is possible in her imagination.∿iction that “combines a richly textured multicultural background with incisive storytelling,” by the author of The Salt Roads (Library Journal). "A marvelous display of Nalo Hopkinson's talents, skills and insights into the human conditions of life, especially of the fantastic realities of the Caribbean. "Her descriptions of ordinary people finding themselves in extraordinary circumstances ring true, the result of her strong evocation of place and her ear for dialect." - Publishers Weekly
"An important new writer." - The Dallas Morning News "Hopkinson's prose is vivid and immediate." - The Washington Post Book World
Praise for Nalo Hopkinson and the World Fantasy Award–winning Skin Folk Hopkinson's unique pacing and vibrant dialogue sets a steady beat for stories that illustrate why she received the John W. In "The Glass Bottle Trick," the young protagonist ignores her intuition regarding her new husband's superstitions-to horrifying consequences. In "A Habit of Waste," a self-conscious woman undergoes elective surgery to alter her appearance days later she's shocked to see her former body climbing onto a public bus. In Skin Folk, with works ranging from science fiction to Caribbean folklore, passionate love to chilling horror, Nalo Hopkinson is at her award-winning best, spinning tales like "Precious," in which the narrator spews valuable coins and gems from her mouth whenever she attempts to talk or sing. The SFWA Grand Master's award-winning collection "combines a richly textured multicultural background with incisive storytelling" ( Library Journal). In a collection of short stories named Skin Folk, Nalo Hopkinson pro- vides the reader with a variety of folklores and fairytale-like stories with supernatural and futuristic approaches.
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