The City We Became

By: N.K. Jemisin

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Paperback | 26 March 2020 | Edition Number 1

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448 Pages

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3.6 x 23.4 x 15.5

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An astonishing new fantasy tale from the record-breaking, triple Hugo Award-winning author of The Fifth Season. Five New Yorkers must band together to defend their city from an ancient evil in the first book of a stunning new series by New York Times bestselling author N. K. Jemisin

Every city has a soul. Some are as ancient as myths, and others are as new and destructive as children. New York City? She's got five.

But every city also has a dark side. A roiling, ancient evil stirs beneath the earth, threatening to destroy the city and her five protectors unless they can come together and stop it once and for all.

Staff Review by Ashleigh Berry

The City We Became is a book that I have been wanting to read for months and am so glad that when I finally read it, it exceeded all expectation. This is a modern-day fantasy that has personified the five boroughs of New York City as protectors against an ancient evil threatening to destroy the city. This is a wonderfully innovative story where newly-born cities have souls, as people, that embody the characteristics of that city. As the first in a new series, this book was a brilliant discovery of this new world and the evil burgeoning. I enjoyed it immensely and now cannot wait for the new instalment!

About the Author

N. K. Jemisin is a Brooklyn-based author and the winner of three Hugo Awards for her novels The Fifth Season, The Obelisk Gate and The Stone Sky. She previously won the Locus Award for her first novel, The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, and her short fiction and novels have been nominated multiple times for Hugo, World Fantasy and Nebula awards, and shortlisted for the Crawford and the James Tiptree, Jr. Awards. She is a science fiction and fantasy reviewer for the New York Times, and you can find her online at nkjemisin.com.

Industry Reviews

Jemisin is now a pillar of speculative fiction, breathtakingly imaginative and narratively bold

One of the most celebrated new voices in epic fantasy

Arguably the most important speculative writer of her generation . . . She's that good

The most celebrated science fiction and fantasy writer of her generation... Jemisin seems able to do just about everything

N. K. Jemisin is a powerhouse of speculative fiction

The most critically acclaimed author in contemporary science fiction and fantasy

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