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008 190909s2019 nyu 000 1 eng
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040 _aDLC
_beng
_erda
_cDLC
_dIMmBT
_dMiTN
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050 4 _aPR6055 .V25
_bE937 2019
099 _aFICTION EVARISTO
100 1 _aEvaristo, Bernardine,
_d1959-
245 1 0 _aGirl, woman, other :
_ba novel /
_cBernardine Evaristo.
250 _aFirst Grove Atlantic edition.
264 1 _aNew York :
_bBlack Cat, an imprint of Grove Atlantic,
_c[2019]
300 _a452 pages ;
_c21 cm.
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent.
337 _aunmediated
_bn
_2rdamedia.
338 _avolume
_bnc
_2rdacarrier.
520 _a"Girl, Woman, Other is a celebration of the diversity of Black British experience. Moving, hopeful, and inventive, this extraordinary novel is a vivid portrait of the state of contemporary Britain and the legacy of Britain's colonial history in Africa and the Caribbean. The twelve central characters of this multi-voiced novel lead vastly different lives: Amma is a newly acclaimed playwright whose work often explores her black lesbian identity; her old friend Shirley is a teacher, jaded after decades of work in London's funding-deprived schools; Carole, one of Shirley's former students, works hard to earn a degree from Oxford and becomes an investment banker; Carole's mother Bummi works as a cleaner and worries about her daughter's lack of rootedness despite her obvious achievements. From a nonbinary social media influencer to a 93-year-old woman living on a farm in Northern England, these unforgettable characters also intersect in shared aspects of their identities, from age to race to sexuality to class. Sparklingly witty and filled with emotion, centering voices we often see othered, and written in an innovative and fast-moving form that borrows from poetry, Girl, Woman, Other is a polyphonic and richly textured social novel that reminds us of everything that connects us to our neighbors, even in times when we are encouraged to be split apart"--
_cProvided by publisher.
500 _a"Shortlisted for the 2019 Booker Prize"--Cover.
500 _aSubtitle from cover.
505 0 _aAnna -- Yazz -- Dominique -- Carole -- Bummi -- LaTisha -- Shirley -- Winsome -- Penelope -- Megan/Morgan -- Hattie -- Grace -- The after-party.
650 0 _aWomen, Black
_zEngland
_vFiction.
651 0 _aEngland
_xSocial life and customs
_vFiction.
655 7 _aDomestic fiction.
_2lcgft.
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