Jamaica Ginger and Other Concoctions (1459)

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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. [STARRED REVIEW] "A joyous celebration of Hopkinson's abiding legacy as a titan of both speculative fiction and Caribbean literature." —Publishers Weekly [STARRED REVIEW] "A commanding short story collection." — Foreword 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; a trans woman at a funeral might be haunted by more than just bad memories; and an artist creates nanotechnology that asserts Blackness where it is least welcome. Hailed by the Los Angeles Times as having "an imagination that most of us