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050	0	0	_aPR6055.V25 _bG57 2019b
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100	1		_aEvaristo, Bernardine, _d1959- _eauthor. _956217
245	1	0	_aGirl, woman, other / _cBernardine Evaristo.
250			_aFirst Grove Atlantic paperback edition.
264		1	_aLondon, United Kingdom : _bPenguin Books, _c2020.
300			_a453 pages ; _c20 cm.
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"--
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586			_aWinner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction, 2019.
650			_aAfrican American women _vFiction. _95710
650			_aWomen, Black _zGreat Britain _vFiction. _956218
650			_aEnglish fiction.
651			_aGreat Britain _xSocial life and customs _vFiction. _956219
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