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River Mumma : a novel / Zalika Reid-Benta.
'River Mumma' is an exhilarating magical realist novel about a millennial Black woman who navigates her quarter-life-crisis while embarking on a quest through the streets of Toronto. It is a homage to Jamaican storytelling by one of the most invigorating voices in Canadian literature. Zalika Reid-Benta lives in Toronto, ON. From the author of 'Frying Plantain', which was longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize. A Dewey Diva Pick. #diversity.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780735244764 (trade paperback)
- Physical Description: 239 pages : maps ; 23 cm
- Publisher: Toronto, ON : Penguin, 2023.
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references. |
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| Subject: | Friendship > Fiction. Quests (Expeditions) > Fiction. Young women > Fiction. Jamaican Canadians > Fiction. Toronto (Ont.) > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Magic realist fiction. Novels. |
Available copies
- 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.
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- 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Lakeshore Branch | FIC ReidB | 31681010336501 | FICTIONPBK | Available | - |
ZALIKA REID-BENTAÂ is a Toronto-based writer whose debut story collection, Frying Plantain, won the Danuta Gleed Literary Award and the Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Prize for Literary Fiction. Frying Plantain was longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, and it was shortlisted for the Toronto Book Award, the White Pine Award, and the Trillium Book Award. Zalika served as the 2021-2022 Writer in Residence at Western University and was the chair of the 2021 Scotiabank Giller Prize. She received an M.F.A. in fiction from Columbia University, was a John Gardner Fiction Fellow at the Bread Loaf Writersâ Conference, and is an alumnus of the Banff Centre Writing Studio.
