A timely and audacious allegorical tale for our times.
A big middle finger to Lovercraft with a lot of heart, creativity, smarts and humor.
"The City We Became is a wonderfully inventive love letter to New York City that spans the multiverse. even those who don't typically read genre fiction."- Booklist (starred review) "Some of the most exciting and powerful fantasy writing of today. Fierce, poetic, uncompromising."- Kirkus (starred review) "A love/hate song to and rallying cry for the author's home of New York. Miller, Nebula-Award-Winning author of Blackfish City "The greatest fantasy novelist currently writing turns her magnificent eye and ear and heart on New York City, and the result is every bit as full of love and rage and crazy compelling characters as my beloved city deserves."- Sam J. The City We Became is a masterpiece that plays by no rules-beautiful, musical, joyfully weird, and as impossibly fantastical as it is deeply true."- Peng Shepherd, author of The Book of M Jemisin has captured the living, breathing soul of New York City in a way that only a writer of her skill can. An homage to New York City, packed with all its love and harshness, and so incredibly inventive that I felt my own imagination and the boundaries of what fantasy can be expand."- S. "Without a doubt, one of the most brilliant books I have ever had the honor of reading. Harrow, author of The Ten Thousand Doors of January "The City We Became is a raucous delight, a joyride, a call-to-arms, a revolution with plenty of dancing. One of Vanity Fair's 15 Best Books of 2020 One of TIME Magazine's 100 Must-Read Books of 2020 One of TIME Magazine's 100 Best Fantasy Books of all time
Some are ancient as myths, and others are as new and destructive as children. In Brooklyn, a politician and mother finds she can hear the songs of her city, pulsing to the beat of her Louboutin heels.Įvery great city has a soul.
In the Bronx, a Lenape gallery director discovers strange graffiti scattered throughout the city, so beautiful and powerful it's as if the paint is literally calling to her. But he can sense the beating heart of the city, see its history, and feel its power. In Manhattan, a young grad student gets off the train and realizes he doesn't remember who he is, where he's from, or even his own name. Jemisin crafts her most incredible novel yet, the first book in The Great Cities Duology, a crackling tale of culture, identity, magic, and myths in contemporary New York City.
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