NALO HOPKINSON reading & booksigning for "The New Moon's Arms" Tuesday, March 6 at 7:00 pm
"The New Moon's Arms" is the new novel from Nalo Hopkinson, the award-winning, Jamaican-born fantasy author. Set in the Caribbean on the fictional island of Dolorosse, the book focuses on a 50-something grandmother named Calamity who regains a special power for finding lost things. And one of the lost things she recovers is a small boy who washes up on the shore outside her house after a rainstorm. . . .
Nalo Hopkinson is a Jamaican-born writer and editor who lives in Canada. Her science fiction and fantasy novels and short stories draw on Caribbean history and language, and its traditions of oral and written storytelling. The daughter of an acclaimed Guyanese poet, Hopkinson has been awarded the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, the Locus Award for Best New Writer, the World Fantasy Award, and the Sunburst Award for Canadian Literature of the Fantastic.
This Booksmith sponsored event will take place at The Booksmith (1644 Haight Street in San Francisco). For further information, call 415-863-8688 or visit www.booksmith.com If you can't attend this event and would like to order a signed copy of the author's new book, please email or phone our store.
