Brown Girl in the Ring
Brown Girl in the Ring
Author: Nalo Hopkinson
Desc: The rich and privileged have fled the city barricaded it behind roadblocks and left it to crumble. The inner city has had to rediscover old ways--farming barter herb lore. But now the monied need a harvest of bodies and so they prey upon the helpless of the streets. With nowhere to turn a young woman must open herself to ancient truths eternal powers and the tragic mystery surrounding her mother and grandmother. She must bargain with gods and give birth to new legends.