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A Habit of Waste

Nalo Hopkinson

First published 1999
Type Short Fiction
Length Short Story

The daughter of Caribbean immigrants, who has switched her natural body for one matching the cultural ideal of a slim blonde, meets an elderly Caribbean immigrant who teaches her how traditional ways can adapt to a new environment.

First published in Fireweed #53, 1996.

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
1999 Cover Women of Other Worlds: Excursions Through Science Fiction and Feminism University of Western Australia Press Anthology 262
April 1999 Cover Northern Suns Tor Anthology 153
April 2000 Cover Northern Suns Tor Anthology 153
December 2001 Cover Skin Folk Aspect / Warner Books Collection 183
June 2011 Cover Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction Wildside Press Anthology |349
December 2011 Cover Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction Wildside Press Anthology |349
January 2015 Cover Skin Folk Open Road Integrated Media Collection
July 2018 Cover Skin Folk Open Road Integrated Media Collection