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The Resource Girl, woman, other, Bernardine Evaristo

Girl, woman, other, Bernardine Evaristo

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"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"--
Language
eng
Work
Publication
Edition
First Grove Atlantic edition.
Extent
1 online resource (464 pages)
Isbn
9780802156990
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Instance
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Girl, woman, other
Title
Girl, woman, other
Statement of responsibility
Bernardine Evaristo
Creator
Contributor
Author
Subject
Genre
Language
eng
Summary
"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"--
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Provided by publisher
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MMI
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1959-
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Evaristo, Bernardine
Dewey number
823/.914
Index
no index present
LC call number
PR6055.V25
LC item number
G57 2019beb
Literary form
fiction
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dictionaries
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  • Women, Black
  • Manners and customs
  • Women, Black
  • Great Britain
  • Great Britain
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Girl, woman, other, Bernardine Evaristo
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online resource
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rdacarrier
Color
multicolored
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
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unknown
Edition
First Grove Atlantic edition.
Extent
1 online resource (464 pages)
File format
unknown
Form of item
online
Isbn
9780802156990
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unknown
Media category
computer
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • c
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aca20f17-a93f-4b60-852c-90fdbee2bf44
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not applicable
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unknown
Sound
unknown sound
Specific material designation
remote
System control number
(OCoLC)1124677895
Label
Girl, woman, other, Bernardine Evaristo
Link
Publication
Antecedent source
unknown
Carrier category
online resource
Carrier category code
  • cr
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Color
multicolored
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Dimensions
unknown
Edition
First Grove Atlantic edition.
Extent
1 online resource (464 pages)
File format
unknown
Form of item
online
Isbn
9780802156990
Level of compression
unknown
Media category
computer
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • c
http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
aca20f17-a93f-4b60-852c-90fdbee2bf44
Quality assurance targets
not applicable
Reformatting quality
unknown
Sound
unknown sound
Specific material designation
remote
System control number
(OCoLC)1124677895

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