The City We Became: A Novel (The Great Cities, 1)
An instant NYT Bestseller! Four-time Hugo Award-winning author N.K. 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. "A glorious fantasy." --Neil Gaiman 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. But he can sense the beating heart of the city, see its history, and feel its power. 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. In Brooklyn, a politician and mother finds she can hear the songs of her city, pulsing to the beat of her Louboutin heels. And they're not the only ones. Every great city has a soul. Some are ancient as myths, and others are as new and destructive as children. New York? She's got six. One of TIME Magazine's 100 Best Fantasy Books of all time
One of TIME Magazine's 100 Must-Read Books of 2020
One of Vanity Fair's 15 Best Books of 2020
One of Amazon's Best Books of 2020
The Great Cities Duology
The City We Became
The World We Make
One of TIME Magazine's 100 Must-Read Books of 2020
One of Vanity Fair's 15 Best Books of 2020
One of Amazon's Best Books of 2020
The Great Cities Duology
The City We Became
The World We Make
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Community Reviews
This was a fun, excellent read! Especially once you understand what N.K is really writing about! Glad I finished this before the next installment is released soon.
Hard for me to follow at first and then I became immersed in the story, characters and experience the author creates. Immensely creative with amazing dialogue and character develpment!
This is one of the weirdest books I have ever read but it worked for me. Also the audiobook was sooo good. I'd say it's the best produced audiobook I have listened to in a long time
Cute story. A love letter to NYC and it’s inhabitants. Ending felt a bit rushed. I would’ve liked to the ending more fleshed out.
A lot of fairly daft good vs evil-from-another-dimension fun and a welcome change of tone from the Broken Earth books which whatever their other qualities consisted mostly of terrible things happening to unlikeable people. As others have remarked this is an almost painfully woke book and the political analogies are hardly subtle but it's none the worse for that really.
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