Three-time Hugo Award winner and NYT bestselling author N. K.
Jemisin challenges and delights readers with thought-provoking
narratives of destruction, rebirth, and redemption that sharply examine
modern society in her first collection of short fiction, which includes
never-before-seen stories.
"Marvelous and wide-ranging." -- Los Angeles Times"Gorgeous" --
NPR Books"Breathtakingly imaginative and narratively bold." --
Entertainment Weekly
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.