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The city we became nk jemisin5/29/2023 ![]() There’s Padmini (Queens), the mathematician from Chennai who is in NYC on a student visa. There’s Bronca (Bronx), the Lenape arts centre administrator, who’s the only one of the five that was ‘reborn’ knowing the group’s history and purpose. There’s Brooklyn, the badass Black city council member who used to be a rapper and who lives in a brownstone with her dad and daughter. ![]() The characters felt real, but I think they will also resonate much more strongly for those with an emotional connection to NYC.įirst, there’s Manny (Manhattan), the brash and charming ethnically ambiguous newcomer who finds power in a cab ride and in dollar bills. It made me wish I grew up in New York City, or even that I just lived there now. I find her books brilliant - they’re multilayered and reveal more with each re-reading. They must band together and find the living embodiment of New York as a single, wholly encompassing city, so that they can defeat the Woman in White, an other-dimensional being determined to stop New York City from being ‘born.’ ![]() In it, five New Yorkers are ‘reborn’ into the living embodiments of the five NYC boroughs. ![]() The City We Became is a full-out, unapologetic, in-your-face homage to New York City. ![]()
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