One of the best shorts in the collection is “Message in a Bottle,” in which the first-person narrator learns about his friends’ child, who is presumed to have a rare disease that stunts her aging. These are just good stories by any definition.
Most of Hopkinson’s stories would qualify as magic realism, with fantastical elements sharing the page with real-world characters and environments, but the variety of her stories helps them stand on their own outside of a genre context. Hopkinson gives her characters various levels of reliability, rooting magical realism in reality to create a surreal collection of stories.įalling in Love with Hominids collects eighteen short stories by Nalo Hopkinson and demonstrates that she is a writer with a vivid imagination and a knack for storytelling.
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