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DESCRIPTION:Reading, discussion and book signing with Nalo Hopkinson, author of the new 
 novel The New Moon’s Arms, at Revolution Books\n\nNalo Hopkinson will 
 discuss her wonderful writing which has been variously described as science 
 fiction, magical realism, and fantasy. Her stories portray complex central 
 female characters and are steeped in Caribbean folklore.\n\nNew Moon’s 
 Arms protagonist is “Calamity”, a 50 year old woman who has just buried 
 her father. The shock of his death, the contradictory feelings his passing 
 sparks in her, and the onset of menopause contribute to strange phenomena 
 such as trees growing up over night around her house and old toys falling 
 from the sky. There is also the emergence of children from the sea: 
 mysterious beings who arrived there by way of the middle 
 passage.\n\nCalamity discovers that love and transformation are all within 
 her power, as her perspective is challenged by the surprising events around 
 her and within her. \n\nSays Nalo Hopkinson about her writing: “I grew up 
 in a milieu of Caribbean writers and writing. I bring that sensibility to 
 my own work, but I write within a particularly northern tradition of 
 speculative and fantastical fiction. There, plot and content are equally 
 important, and the speculative or fantastical elements of the story must be 
 'real': Duppies and jumbies [spirits of the dead] must exist outside the 
 imaginations of the characters; any scientific extrapolation should seem 
 convincingly based in the possible. It's an approach designed to ease or 
 force the suspension of disbelief, to block flight back into the familiar 
 world, to shake up the reader into thinking in new tracks.”\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/02/13/18362610.php
SUMMARY:Author Nalo Hopkinson discusses The New Moon's Arms
LOCATION:Revolution Books, 2425 Channing Way at Telegraph, Berkeley
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/02/13/18362610.php
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