Karen Lord has been a physics teacher, diplomat, part-time soldier, and academic. She is now a writer and research consultant, BSc, MSc, MPhil, PhD. Her novel Redemption in Indigo won the Frank Collymore Literary Award and the William L. Crawford Award, among others. Her novel The Best of All Possible Worlds was published internationally, and won the Frank Collymore Literary Award, RT Reviewers' Choice Award for Best Science Fiction Novel, and Locus Awards Best Science Fiction Novel. She has been nominated for the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. Her latest novel is Unraveling.
Winner of the Carl Brandon Parallax, Mythopoeic, Crawford, & Frank
Collymore award; World Fantasy Award finalist longlisted for the
OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature, shortlisted for the
Guyana Prize for Literature."This is one of those literary works of
which it can be said that not a word should be changed."
--Booklist *Starred Review*"Lord's debut, a retelling of a
Senegalese folktale, packs a great deal of subtly alluring
storytelling into this small package."
--Publishers Weekly *Starred Review*"A clever, exuberant mix of
Caribbean and Senegalese influences that balances riotously funny
set pieces (many involving talking insects) with serious drama
initiated by meddlesome supernatural beings."
--The New York Times"Adventure, mystery, familial relations,
discourse of power, ananse, the spirit world--a difficult
mix/transition between conventional 'plot'/narrative and magical
realism--between cooking and xtreme lyric--beyond the boundary of
what we conventionally/conveniently think of as 'Bajam', as 'West
Indian writing', but part of and contribution to the 'new
generation' of Caribbean imprint, pioneered by Lawrence Scott
(TT/UK), in development now by Nalo Hopkinson (Guyana/Canada),
(Marina Warner's Indigo too?) and being incremented on/to by this
challenging first novel by prize-winning Karen Lord of
Barbados."
--Kamau Brathwaite (Born to Slow Horses)"Lord weaves fantasy into
an implied history of the world to reflect on the use of power and
human choice."--Carl Brandon Society Blog"Filled with witty asides,
trickster spiders, poets and one very wise woman, "Redemption in
Indigo" is a rare find that you could hand to your child, your
mother or your best friend."
--Washington Post"The perfect antidote to the formula fantasies
currently flooding the market.... Précis fails to do justice to the
novel's depth, beauty and elegant simplicity. Written from the
point of view of an omniscient storyteller in the style of an oral
narrative, this is a subtle, wise and playful meditation on life
and fate."
--The Guardian"Lord offers us something vastly unlike the usual
cliché-ridden accounts of mortals chosen to exercise enormous
power. Redemption in Indigo mentally refreshes readers jaded by
Joseph Campbell's notorious monomyth. The characters of Paama,
Ansige, and the indigo-skinned djombi, whose redemption provides
the book's title, help us to enjoy all marginal people's quests and
adventures, in the same way that learning to appreciate one dish
from an unfamiliar cuisine helps us to appreciate many others."
-- Nisi Shawl, Tor.com"Lord's novel is very sprightly from start to
finish, with vivid descriptions, memorable heroes and villains,
brisk pacing -- and an "authorised" epilogue that raises goosebumps
along with expectations for a sequel. Iffy or not, that's clever
storytelling."
--Caribbean Review of Books"Full of sharp insights and humorous
asides ("I know your complaint already. You are saying, how do two
grown men begin to see talking spiders after only three glasses of
spice spirit?"), Redemption extends the Caribbean Island
storyteller's art into the 21st century and hopefully, beyond."
--Seattle Times"There's never a doubt we're in the hands of a
contemporary taleteller with a voice both insouciant and respectful
of its sources, and it's a voice we'd like to hear more from.
Redemption in Indigo is wise, funny, and very promising."
--G
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