02579nam a22003257a 4500 42447 BD-DhAAL 240401t2019 enk 000 1 eng d 2019040552 9780241984994 DLC eng rda DLC DLC BD-DhAAL pcc PR6055.V25 G57 2019b 823.914 23 Evaristo, Bernardine, 1959- author. 56217 Girl, woman, other / Bernardine Evaristo. First Grove Atlantic paperback edition. London, United Kingdom : Penguin Books, 2020. 453 pages ; 20 cm. "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"-- AAL R K Corporation 42447 Winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction, 2019. African American women Fiction. 5710 Women, Black Great Britain Fiction. 56218 English fiction. Great Britain Social life and customs Fiction. 56219 ddc BK 46500 46500 0 0 ddc 0 823_914000000000000_EVA 0 75309 BRACUL BRACUL AWC 2024-03-28 R K Corporation 1075.00 11 823.914 EVA 3010042447 2025-08-25 2025-08-18 1 1075.00 2024-03-28 AWC