Harmer, Joyce Efia
Entry updated 31 July 2023. Tagged: Author.
(? - ) UK teacher and author whose first novel, the Young Adult How Far We've Come (2023), justly discussed in relation to Octavia E Butler's Kindred (1979), reverses the narrative structure of that foundational tale. A young enslaved girl in 1834 Barbados meets a white lad from the twenty-first century (see Slavery; Time Travel), who brings her up the line to his own era. Here she discovers ecstasies of freedom and horrors of the cost of living in an era like this. [JC]
Joyce Efia Harmer
born London
works
- How Far We've Come (London: Simon and Schuster, 2023) [pb/]
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