“A significant figure and a singular talent… A most impressive work, THE NEW MOON’S ARMS has everything a reader could want: a compelling storyline with mysteries at its heart; a firm rooting in myth and history; keen social sense; and, most importantly, a focal character it is impossible not to fall in love with. It is a novel that sweeps the reader into its world: vivid and richly nuanced, utterly realistic yet still somehow touched with magic. Hopkinson’s writing is lush and note-perfect… The dialogue crackles, and Calamity’s narrative voice is direct and winning… one is left with a sense of wonder.”
—Toronto Star
“THE NEW MOON’S ARMS is a dance of lost-and-found. Hopkinson knows not to get too sentimental, thanks in large part to her heroine’s unsinkable sense of humor. It let me hear the mermaids singing.”
—Washington Post Book World
“Considerable talent for character, voice, and lushly sensual writing… her most convincing and complex character to date.”
—Locus
“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… With sly humor and great tenderness, [she] draws out the hope residing in age and change.”
—Toronto Globe and Mail
“Shows new depths of wisdom, humor, and insight… Like life, Hopkinson’s novel doesn’t resolve every mystery. But Hopkinson has answered the essential questions in THE NEW MOON’S ARMS, and she’s wise enough to know we need nothing more.”
Nebula Award Final Ballot Shortlisted for the Hurston-Wright Legacy Award
“A book of wonder, courage, and magic… an electrifying bravura performance by one of our most important writers.”
—Junot Díaz, author of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
“Sexy, disturbing, touching, wildly comic. A tour de force from one of our most striking new voices in fiction.”
—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
“Succeeds impressively as a powerful and passionate meditation on myth and survival.”
—Locus
“A brilliant and multilayered tale.”
—Black Issues Book Review
“Whirling with witchcraft and sensuality, the latest novel by Hopkinson is a globe-spanning, time-traveling spiritual odyssey… The novel has a genuine vitality and generosity. Epic and frenetic, it traces the physical and spiritual ties that bind its characters to each other and to the earth.”
—Publishers Weekly
“Rollicking, sensual… Required reading… [from] one of science fiction’s most inventive and brilliant writers.”
Winner of the World Fantasy Award for Best Collection New York Times Best Book of the Year
“Vibrant… stunning… Hopkinson puts her lyrical gifts to good use.”
—New York Times Book Review
“Hopkinson’s prose is vivid and immediate.”
—Washington Post Book World
“An important new writer.”
—Dallas Morning News
“A marvelous display of Nalo Hopkinson’s talents, skills, and insights into the human conditions of life… everything is possible in her imagination.”
—Science Fiction Chronicle
“Hopkinson has already captured readers with her unique combination of Caribbean folklore, sensual characters, and rhythmic prose. These stories further illustrate her broad range of subjects.”
—Booklist
“An ideal place for the new reader to discover her fertile imagination, profound empathy and extraordinary voice.”
—Toronto Globe and Mail
Final Ballot for the Nebula Award Finalist for the Hugo Award New York Times Notable Book of the Year
“Deeply satisfying… succeeds on a grand scale… best of all is the language… Hopkinson’s narrative voice has a way of getting under the skin.”
—New York Times Book Review
“Caribbean patois adorns this novel with graceful rhythms… Beneath it lie complex, clearly evoked characters, haunting descriptions of exotic planets, and a stirring story… [This book] ought to elevate Hopkinson to star status.”
—Seattle Times
“Spicy and distinctive, set forth in a thoroughly captivating Caribbean dialect.”
—Kirkus Reviews
“Hopkinson’s rich and complex Carib English is… quite beautiful… believable, lushly detailed worlds… extremely well-drawn… Hopkinson owns one of the more important and original voices in SF.”
—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
“Highly recommended.”
—Library Journal (starred review)
“Employs Caribbean folk elements to tell a story that is by turns fantastic, allegorical, and contemporary.”
—Washington Post
Winner of the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer Winner of the Locus Award for Best First Novel Shortlisted for the Philip K. Dick Award and the James Tiptree, Jr. Award
“Excellent… a bright, original mix of future urban decay and West Indian magic… strongly rooted in character and place.”
—Sunday Denver Post
“A wonderful sense of narrative and a finely tuned ear for dialogue… balances a well-crafted and imaginative story with incisive social critique and a vivid sense of place.”
—Emerge
“An impressive debut precisely because of Hopkinson’s fresh viewpoint.”
—Washington Post
“Hopkinson lives up to her advance billing.”
—New York Times Book Review
“Hopkinson’s writing is smooth and assured, and her characters lively and believable. She 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
“Splendid… Superbly plotted and redolent of the rhythms of Afro-Caribbean speech.”
—Kirkus Reviews
“Utterly original… the debut of a major talent. Gripping, memorable, and beautiful.”
—Karen Joy Fowler, author of The Jane Austen Book Club