The City We Became crackles from first word to last with an energy perhaps unique to N.K. It was inventive, original, engaging, humorous, and compelling. It's inclusive in all the best ways, and manages to contain both Borges and Lovecraft in its fabric, but the unique voice and viewpoint are Jemisin's alone." - Neil Gaiman "It's a glorious fantasy, set in that most imaginary of cities, New York. 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
Eat your heart out, Lovecraft." - Alix E. " The City We Became is a raucous delight, a joyride, a call-to-arms, a revolution with plenty of dancing. 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. "Some of the most exciting and powerful fantasy writing of today.Jemisin's latest will attract.even those who don't typically read genre fiction." - Booklist (starred review) Readers will be thrilled." - Publishers Weekly (starred review) "Blending the concept of the multiverse with New York City arcana, this novel works as both a wry adventure and an incisive look at a changing city. as a whole it underscores that people of color are an integral part of the city's tapestry even if some white people prefer to treat them as interlopers.Fierce, poetic, uncompromising." - Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
"The novel is a bold calling out of the racial tensions dividing not only New York City, but the U.S.
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