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The City We Became Lib/E

N. K. Jemisin, Robin Miles

Book 1 in The Great Cities

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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 …

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.

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Published March 24, 2020 by Orbit.

ISBN:: 978-1-5491-5725-7
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technicat@bookwyrm.social reviewed The City We Became by N. K. Jemisin

fun and imaginitive, but it doesn't make me want to go back to New York

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The downside of having a triple-Hugo winning trilogy is that every other book will become compared as "nice, but it's no...", so let's get that out of the way, this is nice but no Broken Earth Trilogy. Also, it's a love-letter to New York (well, most of New York, hate letter some bits), and I'm not the target audience, I lived there for four months and ran back to California where the diversity is less tribal (favorite question asked of me in New York: "Are you Korean? Any tips on buying a Hyundai?', and I'm getting that vibe from this book). So I found it imaginative and fun, but a bit tedious because I didn't care about any of the characters. I liked the shout-out in the ending acknowledgements to fellow writers, borrowed a line from John Scalzi, cultural checking from others, although I think "baozhi" slipped through, it's bao …

The downside of having a triple-Hugo winning trilogy is that every other book will become compared as "nice, but it's no...", so let's get that out of the way, this is nice but no Broken Earth Trilogy. Also, it's a love-letter to New York (well, most of New York, hate letter some bits), and I'm not the target audience, I lived there for four months and ran back to California where the diversity is less tribal (favorite question asked of me in New York: "Are you Korean? Any tips on buying a Hyundai?', and I'm getting that vibe from this book). So I found it imaginative and fun, but a bit tedious because I didn't care about any of the characters. I liked the shout-out in the ending acknowledgements to fellow writers, borrowed a line from John Scalzi, cultural checking from others, although I think "baozhi" slipped through, it's bao in Cantonese, baozi in Mandarin, but who knows, it's always possible an editor messed with it.

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