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This episode CM Lowry is talking with author Rachel A Rosen about Brown Girl In The Ring by Nalo Hopkinson in ‘This Book I Read…’
Topics covered include:
- Post-apocalyptic Toronto & Ontario.
- ‘White Flight’, inner city decline, ‘Donut cities’ and gentrification.
- The Afro-Caribbean diaspora, The Jab Jab & Roti Shops.
- The challenges of predicting the future back in the 1990s.
Links to things we discussed:
- Rachel’s latest book Cascades can be found at BumblePuppyPress.ca.
- Octavia Butler, scifi author and black power movement commentator.
- Kim Stanley Robinson’s Red Mars Trilogy.
- NK Jemisin’s Broken Earth Trilogy.
- The New Moon’s Arms by Nalo Hopkinson.
- Moon of the Crusted Snow by Waubgeshig Rice.
- Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline.
- End of the World Running Club by Adrian Walker
- BumblePuppy Press
- NightBeatsEU.ca
Music & Editing by CM Lowry