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<b>From one of Britain’s most celebrated writers of color, a magnificent portrayal of the intersections of identity among an interconnected group of Black British women</b><p> <b>Longlisted for the 2019 Booker Prize and shortlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize, <i>Girl, Woman, Other</i> is a celebration of the diversity of Black British experience. Moving, hopeful, and inventive in its literary form, this extraordinary novel is a vivid portrait of the state of post-Brexit Britain that looks back to the legacy of Britain’s colonial history in Africa and the Caribbean.</b> </p><p>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 Bumm