The City We Became

In 2020, N.K. Jemisin added a MacArthur Foundation "genius grant" to her already impressive record. Prior to that, she became the first writer to win the Hugo Award for best novel three years in a row, for her Broken Earth trilogy. The City We Became kicks off another ambitious trilogy, an urban fantasy that transforms New York City into a multiversal battleground. The author has written a paean to a much-celebrated metropolis, though it is far from an uncomplicated portrait. The supernatural threats facing her protagonists often piggyback on some of the very real challenges facing the city, from racist policing to gentrification. 

"Great cities are like any other living things," she writes, "being born and maturing and wearying and dying in their turn." The City We Became is about New York fighting for its life in more ways than one. It is a fierce, opinionated vision of a storied metropolis facing down existential threats. --Hank Stephenson, the Sun magazine, manuscript reader

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