Order of Nalo Hopkinson Books

Nalo Hopkinson is a Jamaican author best known for writing speculative fiction. She is the author of Brown Girl in the Ring, Midnight Robber, The Salt Roads, and The New Moon’s Arms as well as numerous short stories.

Hopkinson was born in Kingston, Jamaica before he family moved to Guyana, Trinidad, and finally Canada. Writing was a big part of her upbringing as her mother was a librarian technician and her father was a poet and actor. She read great authors from early on in her formative years and she was heavily influenced by folk and fairy tales. In her own career, she would go on to become a Professor of Creative Writing at University of California Riverside.

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Brown Girl in the Ring was Hopkinson’s debut novel about a young bargaining with the gods to save her city. The story takes place in a city where the rich and privileged have fled the city and left it crumble. To survive, the people of the inner city have had to return to the old ways like farming and herb lore. However, the rich now find themselves in need of bodies and start to prey on the helpless still in the city. A young woman decides to do something about it and opens herself up to a world of ancient truths and eternal powers.

Nalo also wrote Sister Mine that explores the relationship between two sisters. The girls, Makeda and Abby, were born as conjoined twins which left them each unique. Abby was the one born with the magic while Makeda was merely mortal. This leaves Makeda on the outside looking in on the magical family. As Abby’s powers start to develop, Makeda makes the decision to go and live in the real world among the rest of the mortals. However, when their magical father goes missing Makeda will reunite with her sister to try and save him.