![]() ![]() ![]() While most cities only have a single avatar, some, like New York City, are so diverse and varied that there is a single, primary avatar and then others who represent each part of the city-the five boroughs: Manhattan, the Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens, and Staten Island. Cities can erupt into a kind of multidimensional sapience and are, as a part of this processed, embodied through human avatars. Or at least, it is in the process of being born. ![]() I’m going to do my best only to remark on this book in this review. In a rare event, I read the sequel immediately after finishing this book, so I actually know how this series ends before sitting down to write this review. Jemisin’s story “The City Born Great”, which I read in How Long ’Til Black Future Month, has become The City We Became and a sequel. I love it when authors take concepts from a short story, novelette, or novella and turn them into entire novels! In this case, N.K. ![]()
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