Nalo Hopkinson author event

NALO HOPKINSON
reading & booksigning for "The New Moon's Arms"
Tuesday, March 6 at 7:00 pm
at The Booksmith (1644 Haight Street in San Francisco)

"The New Moon's Arms" is the new novel from Nalo Hopkinson, the award-
winning, Jamaican-born fantasy author. Set in the Caribbean on the
fictional island of Dolorosse, the book focuses on a 50-something
grandmother named Calamity who regains a special power for finding
lost things. And one of the lost things she recovers is a small boy
who washes up on the shore outside her house after a rainstorm. . . .

Nalo Hopkinson is a Jamaican-born writer and editor who lives in
Canada. Her science fiction and fantasy novels and short stories draw
on Caribbean history and language, and its traditions of oral and
written storytelling. The daughter of an acclaimed Guyanese poet,
Hopkinson has been awarded the John W. Campbell Award for Best New
Writer, the Locus Award for Best New Writer, the World Fantasy Award,
and the Sunburst Award for Canadian Literature of the Fantastic.

This Booksmith sponsored event will take place at The Booksmith (1644
Haight Street in San Francisco). For further information, call
415-863-8688 or visit www.booksmith.com If you can't attend this
event and would like to order a signed copy of the author's new book,
please email or phone our store.