More often than not, I finish a story feeling just a little baffled that there wasn’t more to it. Most of them follow the same pattern: Stressed out city-dweller, out of touch with his/her Caribbean roots, suddenly gets a glimpse of the supernatural and changes his/her life. I want to love this book.But unfortunately, for me the stories themselves aren’t really up to par with their frames. True, she sometimes overrates how interesting it is to read long accounts about how to make hot chocolate the right way, but her blend of urban fantasy feels original and grounded. Hopkinson knows her mythology, her culture and her narrative structures. Hopkinson has a keen post-colonial eye, and her writing is obviously as much about reclaiming as it is about breaking new ground. Her language is one thing, it’s a delight to read her narrators talking thick Caribbean dialects. There are things I really like about Nalo Hopkinson.
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