Description: Praise for Falling in Love With Hominids "Hopkinson''s stories dazzle" -- NPR "The stories all share a common thread of magic, which is often woven, whether subtly or blatantly, into the fabric of everyday reality, allowing characters to react to the strange or the impossible as it crosses into their world. Hopkinson also draws frequently on her Caribbean upbringing and heritage, and her characters' voices are distinct and authentic, both in their speech patterns and in their ways of looking at their surroundings. Hopkinson's fans will be delighted by these examples of her wide-ranging imagination." -- Publishers Weekly A Barnes and Noble Bookseller's Pick for August 2015 "The award-winning author of Midnight Robber and Brown Girl in the Ring returns with a collection of fantastical short fiction, assembling a decade's worth of stories of magic and the supernatural intersecting with everyday life." -- BarnesandNoble.com "Every reader will surely find something to love, as this collection is often hilariously funny, deeply tragic, intensely engaging, and strongly steeped with fantastic elements." -- Civilian Reader "Hopkinson does some beautiful things with the art of writing, her imagination is without bounds, and she challenges both readers and writers to go beyond what we see as the status quo. The book is filled with characters of colour, with LGBT characters, with characters who, one way or the other, are memorable and real and get to take part in some amazing stories." -- Bibliotropic A Book Riot Best Book We Read in July "Every story feels like a perfectly formed separate entity, but pulling them together is the effortless blending of the fantastic and the mundane." -- Book Riot " Falling in Love with Hominids is a wonderful treat for Nalo Hopkinson fans and a fantastic introduction for new readers." -- New York Journal of Books A New in Books Best New Fantasy Book "I can't wait to read more of [Hopkinson's] work in the future because I loved the speculative worlds in this short story collection." -- Paper Wanderer "Nalo Hopkinson paints the places she knows in the way that Mrquez embodies the soul of Central America, or the way Bradbury captures Illinois summers." -- Fiction Foresight "... Falling in Love with Hominids [which] is a pleasure from beginning to end." -- Worlds Without End "This is an outstanding collection that really gives insight into [Hopkinson's] storytelling, the breadth and insight with which she writes." -- The Conversationalist "...this is a fantastic collection that I encourage lovers of fantasy and science fiction to pick up." -- The Illustrated Page Praise for Nalo Hopkinson "One of our most important writers." --Junot Diaz, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao "A major talent." --Karen Joy Fowler, author of We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves "Nalo Hopkinson has had a remarkable impact on popular fiction. Her work continues to question the very genres she adopts, transforming them from within through her fierce intelligence and her commitment to a radical vision that refuses easy consumption." -- Globe & Mail "One of the best fantasy authors working today." -- io9 "As an exciting new voice in our literature." -- Edmonton Journal "...like Samuel R. Delaney and Octavia E. Butler, [Hopkinson] forces us to consider how inequities of race, gender, class and power might be played out in a dystopian future." -- The News Magazine of Black America "Caribbean science fiction? Nalo Hopkinson is staking her claim as one of its most notable authors...." -- Caribbean Travel and Life "Hopkinson's prose is a distinct pleasure to read: richly sensual, with high-voltage erotic content and gorgeous details." -- SCIFI.com For Brown Girl in the Ring "Nalo Hopkinson's first novel, Brown Girl in the Ring , is simply triumphant." --Dorothy Allison, author of Bastard Out of Carolina "Hopkinson lives up to her advance billing." -- New York Times Book Review "[Hopkinson] has created a vivid world of urban decay and startling, dangerous magic, where the human heart is both a physical and metaphorical key." -- Publishers Weekly "It is great." --Octavia E. Butler, author of Parable of the Sower "An impressive debut precisely because of Hopkinson's fresh viewpoint." -- Washington Post Book World "A parable of black feminist self-reliance, couched inpoetic language and the structural conventions of classic SF." -- Village Voice For Skin Folk "Everything is possible in her imagination." -- Science Fiction Chronicle "Nalo Hopkinson, award-winning author of Brown Girl in the Ring and Midnight Robber, has released an impressive collection of short stories entitled Skin Folk...well crafted and brilliantly written." -- Barnes & Noble For The Salt Roads " The Salt Roads succeeds impressively...." -- Locus " The Salt Roads is like nothing you've read before.... The characters' stories are heartbreaking and beautiful, living beyond the novel's pages. Hopkinson's writing is like a favorite song." --Tananarive Due, American Book Award-winning author of The Living Blood "With her conjurer's art, with daring and delightful audacity, Nalo Hopkinson reaches into the well of history." --Sandra Jackson-Opoku, author of, The River Where Blood is Born

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