![]() ![]() ![]() Agent: Lucienne Diver, the Knight Agency. There were highs (Seema, the glamour-puss real-estate agent Charlotte dealing with her child’s gender identity) and lows (Carrie’s vexed boss, Che the episode-long subplot about an apartment. Blending the concept of the multiverse with New York City arcana, this novel works as both a wry adventure and an incisive look at a changing city. ![]() Jemisin’s earthy, vibrant New York is mirrored in her dynamic, multicultural cast. Five New Yorkers must come together in order to defend their city in the first book of a stunning new series by Hugo award-winning and NYT bestselling author. While the Woman in White works to undermine them, the five avatars, whose personalities delightfully mirror the character of their respective boroughs (the Bronx is “creative with an attitude,” Manhattan is “smart, charming, well-dressed, and cold enough to strangle you in an alley if we still had alleys”), learn the extent of their new powers. If they can combine their powers, they’ll be able to awaken the avatar of the city as a whole and defeat the Woman in White, but first they’ll have to find each other. Five people-one for each of the city’s five boroughs-are called to become avatars dedicated to protecting the city. An alien, amorphous force, personified by the Woman in White, launches an attack on New York. After hundreds of years of gestation, New York City is awakening to sentience, but “postpartum complications” threaten to destroy it. The staggering contemporary fantasy that launches three-time Hugo Award-winner Jemisin’s new trilogy (following the Broken Earth series) leads readers into the beating heart of New York City for a stunning tale of a world out of balance. ![]()
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