In the meantime, let’s get into our last chapters here. You can sign up to attend the event here. It’ll be a gas! At the end, we’ll announce our book pick for next month, and the club will continue. Jemisin herself (my fondest dream for this event is that putting two computer screens between us will prevent me from passing out with awe), and you will be able to submit questions too. Discussing The City We Became with all of you has been a real source of joy for me during this very hard time, and I hope that it has been a joy for you as well.Īnd I hope you’ll join us for our live event on April 29! We’ll be meeting on Zoom, where I’ll have a talk with the legendary N.K. Thank you all for coming along on the ride, both those of you who commented and made these discussions so much richer and more thoughtful, and those of you who clicked and read and talked about the book elsewhere. We’re finishing the book, and I for one have some feelings about it.
Jemisin’s The City We Became, in which we tackle everything from chapter 11 through the coda. But Jemisin’s genius is in how effortlessly she shatters our misconceptions about one another and our world, then invites us to dream to do better.Welcome to the Vox Book Club’s third week of discussion on N.K. We are slowly emerging from extended isolation and for millions, the notion of a shared public identity remains brittle. Through the anima of New York, she invited us all to become freedom fighters. As our nation grappled with the stubborn ephemera of justice and the harsh consequences of a pandemic, Jemisin, who received a 2020 MacArthur “genius” grant, constructed a revolutionary exploration of the places where we live in The City We Became.
them” narrative and instead dares readers to bring their lived experiences into the space she has imagined. Jemisin accomplishes in each of her works defies the standard “us vs. W orld-building is the core of extraordinary science fiction-the ability to craft the contours, substance and heft of whole societies.
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