This novel begins with the playwright Amma opening her show The Last Amazon of Dahomey in London. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this novel by Bernardine Evaristo about the intersecting experiences of twelve women, which ends with characters reuniting at the National Theatre.
ANSWER: Girl, Woman, Other
[10e] In Hanif Kureishi's The Buddha of Suburbia, Karim joins the London theater scene and portrays the "man-cub" Mowgli in a stage adaptation of this Rudyard Kipling collection.
ANSWER: The Jungle Book
[10m] Sarah Waters draws on this literary genre in her novel Tipping the Velvet, in which Nan runs away to London and becomes a cross-dressing theater entertainer. Novels in this genre, which typically depict a roguish lower-class hero's adventures, include Tom Jones and Moll Flanders.
ANSWER: picaresque novels
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