There is no doubt: N.K. Jemisin can write. #Bookstodon
4 stars
The range, the sharp use of language... This is why she has won so many awards.
paperback, 448 pages
Published Aug. 13, 2019 by Orbit.
Spirits haunt the flooded streets of New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. In a parallel universe, a utopian society watches our world, trying to learn from our mistakes. A black mother in the Jim Crow South must save her daughter from a fey offering impossible promises. And in the Hugo award-nominated short story "The City Born Great," a young street kid fights to give birth to an old metropolis's soul.
The range, the sharp use of language... This is why she has won so many awards.