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050	0	0	_aPR6055.V25 _bG57 2019
082	1		_aFIC EVA _2
100	1		_aEvaristo, Bernardine _d(1959-)
245	1	0	_aGirl, woman, other _c/ Bernardine Evaristo
260			_aNew York _b: Grove Press _c, 2019
300			_a452 p. _c; 22 cm
490	0		_aWinner of The Booker Prize 2019 and the first black woman to receive this highest literary honor in the English language.
520			_aGirl, Woman, Other is a celebration of the diversity of Black British experience. Moving, hopeful, and inventive, this 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.
546			_aEnglish
650		4	_aWomen, Black _v--Fiction
651		4	_aEngland _x-Social life and customs _x-Fiction
655		4	_aShort stories
942			_cMO
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