BRIDGE TO SIGHS

here are writers that Jo Hamya admires: Virginia Woolf, for one. Lines from A Room of One’s Own, Woolf’s 1928 Cambridge lecture about women writers and independence, provide the epigraph to Hamya’s ultra-contemporary debut novel, Three Rooms. It’s Oxford University, though, where Three Rooms begins, with a young unnamed woman of colour struggling to find her place as she starts a job as a research assistant. Hamya admires Rosemary