The city we became nk jemisin5/26/2023 Jemisin RELEASE DATE: MaThis extremely urban fantasy, a love/hate song to and rallying cry for the author’s home of New York, expands her story The City, Born Great (from How Long ’Til Black Future Month, 2018). If I'm going to write New York, I'm going to write the New York I know, in which artists and queer people and black people and all kinds of people with different ethnic backgrounds are blending and talking to each other and eating each other's food. THE CITY WE BECAME From the Great Cities series, Vol. I've never seen New York as a white place where everybody has really large apartments. But I'm just doing the same thing that television shows like "Girls" do - I'm just showing New York from my perspective. After the avatar of New York falls into a supernatural coma and vanishes, a group of five new avatars representing the five boroughs come together to fight their common Enemy. Some of the early reviews of "The City We Became" criticized the book because it only has one white character. The City We Became takes place in New York City, in a version of the world in which major cities become sentient through human avatars. The only difference is that our society is configured to see one of those things as perfectly normal, and the other as pathology. They're interjecting their white dude ethics and aesthetics into what they write, and I'm doing the same thing with my fiction. NKJ: I'm not doing anything different than what those old white men with beards living in middle America are doing with their fantasy stories.
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