{"id":59880,"date":"2020-07-06T14:35:28","date_gmt":"2020-07-06T14:35:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=59880"},"modified":"2020-07-06T14:35:31","modified_gmt":"2020-07-06T14:35:31","slug":"sister-mine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=59880","title":{"rendered":"Sister Mine"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sister Mine<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Grand Central Publishing<\/a>
\n2013-03-12
\n346 pages
\nPaperback ISBN-13: 9781455528400
\neBook ISBN-13: 9781455517732<\/p>\n

Nalo Hopkinson<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

<\/a><\/p>\n

Andre Norton Nebula Award, 2013<\/strong><\/p>\n

Nalo Hopkinson\u2013winner of the John W. Campbell Award, the Sunburst Award, and the World Fantasy award (among others), and lauded as one of our \u201cmost inventive and brilliant writers\u201d (New York Post<\/em>)\u2013returns with a new work. With her singular voice and characteristic sharp insight, she explores the relationship between two sisters in this richly textured and deeply moving novel . . . Sister Mine<\/em> We\u2019d had to be cut free of our mother\u2019s womb. She\u2019d never have been able to push the two-headed sport that was me and Abby out the usual way. Abby and I were fused, you see. Conjoined twins. Abby\u2019s head, torso, and left arm protruded from my chest. But here\u2019s the real kicker; Abby had the magic, I didn\u2019t. Far as the Family was concerned, Abby was one of them, though cursed, as I was, with the tragic flaw of mortality.<\/p>\n

Now adults, Makeda and Abby still share their childhood home. The surgery to separate the two girls gave Abby a permanent limp, but left Makeda with what feels like an even worse deformity: no mojo<\/a>. The daughters of a celestial demigod and a human woman, Makeda and Abby were raised by their magical father, the god of growing things\u2013a highly unusual childhood that made them extremely close. Ever since Abby\u2019s magical talent began to develop, though, in the form of an unearthly singing voice, the sisters have become increasingly distant.<\/p>\n

Today, Makeda has decided it\u2019s high time to move out and make her own life among the other nonmagical, claypicken humans\u2013after all, she\u2019s one of them. In Cheerful Rest, a run-down warehouse space, Makeda finds exactly what she\u2019s been looking for: an opportunity to live apart from Abby and begin building her own independent life. There\u2019s even a resident band, led by the charismatic (and attractive) building superintendent.<\/p>\n

But when her father goes missing, Makeda will have to discover her own talent\u2013and reconcile with Abby\u2013if she\u2019s to have a hope of saving him . . .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We\u2019d had to be cut free of our mother\u2019s womb. She\u2019d never have been able to push the two-headed sport that was me and Abby out the usual way. Abby and I were fused, you see. Conjoined twins. Abby\u2019s head, torso, and left arm protruded from my chest. But here\u2019s the real kicker; Abby had the magic, I didn\u2019t. Far as the Family was concerned, Abby was one of them, though cursed, as I was, with the tragic flaw of mortality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,8,15,25],"tags":[15904,26150],"class_list":["post-59880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-media-archive","category-novels","category-women","tag-grand-central-publishing","tag-nalo-hopkinson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59880"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59881,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59880\/revisions\/59881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}