How: If you're planning on going it would be appreciated if you could RSVP to Janis Ackroyd at since the venue is an intimate space with potentially limited capacity. Where: Victory Café, 581 Markham Street (Behind Honest Ed's on Bloor Street West) When: The event is Tuesday February 27th from 6-8pm As you can tell, I enjoyed this book more than anything I've read in a long while. A flabby, fervid melodrama of a high-strung Southern family from Conroy (The Great Santini, The Lords of Discipline), whose penchant for overwriting once again. Midnight Robber (2000) The Salt Roads (2004) The New Moons Arms (2007). Treat yourself and head over to Victory Café on Tuesday for the launch of this new work and buy a copy for yourself. Nalo Hopkinsons debut novel came to attention when it won the Warner Aspect. I mentioned that it is labelled 'magical realism' and, although I'd never heard of that as a genre, it's the perfect description of the melding of what we traditionally accept as 'real life' with a touch of something a bit magical and fantastical.

Hopkinson is also the author of The New Moons Arms, The Salt Roads, Midnight Robber, and Brown Girl in the Ring.

Life for Calamity has never been easy, and with th. Here are the basics: the book is set in the Caribbean in a fictional place called Cayaba It follows Calamity (née Chastity) as she buries her father, begins menopause, re-discovers an ability to 'find' things (things lost long ago suddenly appear with each hot flash), takes in a foster child and deals with the consequences of all these changes. Her award-winning short fiction collection Skin Folk was selected for the 2002 New York Times Summer Reading List and was one of the New York Times Best Books of the Year. Gin Hammonds portrayal of Calamity Lambkin, a salty, irreverent Caribbean woman, is pitch-perfect.

The New Moon's Arms by Nalo Hopkinson