Brown Girl in the Ring

Nalo Hopkinson · first published 1998 · ISBN 9780446674331

Set in a decayed Toronto of the near future, the city's core has collapsed into a sprawl of dangerous slums called the Burn. Ti-Jeanne and her grandmother Mami practice obeah, Caribbean herbalism and spirit magic, to survive. When a corrupt Ontario premier needs a heart transplant and manipulates a drug lord into acquiring one from the slums, an old woman's magic awakens something that won't be contained.