Ever wondered what a fantastical city of Toronto, as navigated by a no-nonsense Black woman, truly looks like?

Brown Girl in the Ring is an eerie Afrofuturistic fantasy. In a dystopian Toronto, Canada, the lives of the poor are at the mercy of the rich, who hunt them for food. It’s dark, and only the toughest survive. Ti-Jeanne is a young mother who assists her healer grandmother as she waits for the next ride out of dodge. Hopkinson renders a vivid, believable post-economic-collapse-Canada, and her protagonist has been sharpened to skewer the hardships she encounters. By borrowing from Caribbean folklore, Hopkinson adds unexpected texture to this award-winning first novel.