S01 E01: The City We Became by N.K. Jemisin
Buckle up friends, we’re stepping into another dimension. This week, we’ll be discussing the first novel in the Great Cities series, “The City We Became” written by award winning science fiction and fantasy author, N.K. Jemisin.
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The City We Became in One Sentence
ERKS: White supremacy ruins the party (again), but make it sci-fi.
MARY PAIGE: Though I discovered the fantasy genre is not my jam due to my lack of imagination, I finally figured out around page 250 or so that that this book is about the city borough avatars coming together to protect the soul of the city (aka the primary avatar in which I’m still unsure if he has a name?) against racism also known as the woman in white, the ghost in the bathroom stall, the x shaped spider thing or the monster in the pool the random feathery tendrils? by using their strange superpowers I still don’t fully understand.
COURTNEY: New York city has come alive and must fight a parasitic enemy from another dimension or face extinction through gentrification.
The answer to "whatcha reading next?"
Coming up next, we’ve got…
- 3/30: The Duke and I by Julia Quinn
- 4/13: Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi
- 4/27: Ready Player 1 by Ernest Cline
Read along with us – it’s a book club!
