Every great city has a soul. New York has six.
When Manhattan wakes up in the body of a confused young man, he realizes the city is alive—and it’s under attack. Across the boroughs, five others awaken to find strange powers coursing through them, each one embodying a piece of New York’s spirit. They are the avatars of the city, and together, they must fight to save it from a cosmic force threatening to erase it from existence.
From Harlem graffiti that speaks to your bones to subway echoes that carry more than sound, New York has never felt so alive.
The City We Became is a dazzling, genre-defying urban fantasy by three-time Hugo Award winner N. K. Jemisin. This is the city’s story, told by the city itself.
