You can tell she lives here and loves it deeply. What makes this book so fun is how Jemisin infused these avatars with the culture, history, and lifeblood of their boroughs. But NYC’s birth gets disrupted by an ancient enemy who wants to stop it from being born, and so our six characters have to find each other to fortify and protect New York so it can finish being born and live on. Except New York has not one, but six avatars: one for each borough, and one for the city as a whole. To help that process complete, there is always a human who takes on the city’s life force a living avatar. The premise is really imaginative: All cities, when they reach a certain age or cultural tipping point, are born into living things. You’ll see lots of people describe it as a love letter to NYC, and as a person who lives here, I had such a good time reading it. “This is the lesson: Great cities are like any other living things, being born and maturing and wearying and dying in their turn.”
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