{"product_id":"0802156983-girl-_woman-_other_a_novel_booker_prize_winner","title":"Girl, Woman, Other: A Novel (Booker Prize Winner)","description":"\n\n\u003cb\u003eNATIONAL BESTSELLER\u003cbr\u003eWINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e“A must-read about modern Britain and womanhood . . . An impressive, fierce novel about the lives of black British families, their struggles, pains, laughter, longings and loves . . . Her style is passionate, razor-sharp, brimming with energy and humor. There is never a single moment of dullness in this book and the pace does not allow you to turn away from its momentum.”―Booker Prize Judges\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eBernardine Evaristo is the winner of the 2019 Booker Prize and the first black woman to receive this highest literary honor in the English language. \u003ci\u003eGirl, Woman, Other\u003c\/i\u003e is a magnificent portrayal of the intersections of identity and a moving and hopeful story of an interconnected group of Black British women that paints a vivid portrait of the state of contemporary Britain and looks back to the legacy of Britain’s colonial history in Africa and the Caribbean.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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, is a successful 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eSparklingly witty and filled with emotion, centering voices we often see othered, and written in an innovative fast-moving form that borrows technique from poetry, \u003ci\u003eGirl, Woman, Other\u003c\/i\u003e is a polyphonic and richly textured social novel that shows a side of Britain we rarely see, one that reminds us of all that connects us to our neighbors, even in times when we are encouraged to be split apart.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eCategories:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul class=\"category-tree\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLiterature \u0026amp; Fiction\u003cul class=\"category-tree\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGenre Fiction\u003cul class=\"category-tree\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLGBTQ+\u003cul class=\"category-tree\"\u003e\u003cli class=\"category-tree\"\u003eFamily Life Fiction\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n","brand":"Grove Press, Black Cat","offers":[{"title":"Used - Good","offer_id":46671149662398,"sku":"0802156983-4","price":13.47,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0640\/9689\/5166\/files\/71TpVXA19ZL.jpg?v=1776881603","url":"https:\/\/shop.sustainablebooks.com\/products\/0802156983-girl-_woman-_other_a_novel_booker_prize_winner","provider":"Sustainable Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}