The Chaos
Nalo Hopkinson
Fiction H7772c
Scotch has never quite fit in. With her white Jamaician father and
black Canadian mother, she doesn’t belong with the Caribbeans, white, or
blacks. Though recently she feels different for stranger reasons–her
skin is being covered in spots of black stickiness that won’t go away no
matter what she tries. Not to mention that she sees floating, bodiless
horse heads that no one else can.
But soon Scotch has even bigger
problems. She’s out for a night with her brother when a bubble of light
appears. Scotch dares her brother to touch it. He does, and then he
disappears. A moment later a volcano emerges in Lake Ontario, and all
Toronto is invaded by the Chaos.
Scotch is desperate to find her
brother, but she doesn’t know where to begin searching in a city gone
mad. Mythical creatures such as Sasquatches are walking down the
streets, and ordinary people are transforming in truly weird ways.
Scotch herself is getting blacker and blacker. Can she find her brother
before she becomes completely unrecognizable?
Renowned author Nalo Hopkinson mixes fantasy and Caribbean folklore
in this rollicking story of identity and self-acceptance in a world
given over to Chaos. (Publisher's description)
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