- Criticism, Canadian Science fiction, Fiction, Science Fiction
Throughout the Caribbean there are stories about people who aren't what they seem. Skin gives these folk their human shape. When the skin comes off, their true selves emerge. And whatever the burden their skin bears, once they remove it, skin folk can fly...Nalo Hopkinson has gained universal acclaim as one of the most impressively original authors to emerge in years.
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Contemporary, grave, classical in form and open-ended.
- contemporarynostalgic
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- resolvedopen-ended
- earnestironic
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About the book
- Author
- Nalo Hopkinson
- First published
- 2001
- Pages
- 255
- Publisher
- Warner Books, Open Road Media Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Grand Central Publishing
- Editions
- 5
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780759566323
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