The City We Became is the story of how New York City comes to life It made me more hopeful that when the pandemic ebbs, the vital core of our communities will still remain. At times, it does feel as though coronavirus is threatening everything that makes New York a living, breathing, vital organism, and as though it will leave the city nothing but a husk of itself.īut as I read The City We Became, I never once thought, “No, that’s too close,” or, “I’ll just wait and pick this book up in a year.” It is an absorbing and joyful novel, and reading it didn’t just temporarily take me away from the reality of life during a pandemic. Meanwhile, the real New York City, where I live, has become the center of America’s coronavirus pandemic, and the literal infection here is casting existing bigotry and white nationalism into ever-sharper relief. The infection in her fantasy New York City is a metaphor for colonialism and bigotry and white nationalism. The City We Became is strange to read right now in a way that Jemisin - the only person ever to win the prestigious Hugo Award three years in a row - could not possibly have predicted. It spreads rapidly from person to person, and its goal is nothing less than to destroy everything that makes New York a living, breathing, vital organism. Jemisin, an infection is spreading across New York City. In The City We Became, the new novel by N.K.
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