ISBN: 0316491357 9780316491358

Category: Fiction / Fantasy / Epic

Page count: 416

<b>Three-time Hugo Award winner and <i>NYT</i> 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.</b><br><br>"Marvelous and wide-ranging."<b> -- Los Angeles Times</b>"Gorgeous"<b> -- NPR Books</b>"Breathtakingly imaginative and narratively bold."<b> -- Entertainment Weekly</b><br><br>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.