Nalo Hopkinson (Brown Girl
in the Ring, Skin Folk) has been
widely hailed as a highly significant voice in Caribbean and American
fiction. She has been dubbed “one of our most important writers,”
(Junot Diaz), with “an imagination that most of us would kill for”
(Los Angeles Times), and her work has been called “stunning,”
(New York Times) “rich in voice, humor, and dazzling imagery”
(Kirkus), and “simply triumphant” (Dorothy Allison).
Falling
in Love with Hominids
presents more than a dozen years of Hopkinson’s new, uncollected
fiction, much of which has been unavailable in print, including one
original story. Her singular, vivid tales, which mix the modern with
Afro-Caribbean folklore, are occupied by creatures unpredictable and
strange: chickens that breathe fire, adults who eat children, and
spirits that haunt shopping malls.
