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The City We Became
- Narrated by: Robin Miles
- Length: 16 hrs and 12 mins
- Categories: Literature & Fiction, Classics
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Publisher's Summary
Three-time Hugo Award-winning and New York Times best-selling author N.K. Jemisin crafts her most incredible novel yet, a "glorious" story of culture, identity, magic, and myths in contemporary New York City.
In Manhattan, a young grad student gets off the train and realizes he doesn't remember who he is, where he's from, or even his own name. But he can sense the beating heart of the city, see its history, and feel its power.
In the Bronx, a Lenape gallery director discovers strange graffiti scattered throughout the city, so beautiful and powerful it's as if the paint is literally calling to her.
In Brooklyn, a politician and mother finds she can hear the songs of her city, pulsing to the beat of her Louboutin heels.
And they're not the only ones.
Every great city has a soul. Some are ancient as myths, and others are as new and destructive as children. New York? She's got six.
For more from N. K. Jemisin, check out:
The Inheritance Trilogy
- The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms
- The Broken Kingdoms
- The Kingdom of God
- The Inheritance Trilogy (omnibus edition)
"Shades in Shadow: An Inheritance Triptych" (e-only short fiction)
The Awakened Kingdom (e-only novella)
Dreamblood Duology
- The Killing Moon
- The Shadowed Sun
- The Dreamblood Duology (omnibus)
The Broken Earth
The Fifth Season
The Obelisk Gate
The Stone Sky
How Long 'til Black Future Month? (short story collection)
"A glorious fantasy." (Neil Gaiman)
What the critics say
"A love/hate song to and rallying cry for the author's home of New York... Fierce, poetic, uncompromising." (Kirkus, starred review)
"The City We Became is a wonderfully inventive love letter to New York City that spans the multiverse. A big middle finger to Lovecraft with a lot of heart, creativity, smarts and humor. A timely and audacious allegorical tale for our times. This book is all these things and more." (Rebecca Roanhorse, author of Trail of Lightning)
"It's a glorious fantasy, set in that most imaginary of cities, New York. It's inclusive in all the best ways, and manages to contain both Borges and Lovecraft in its fabric, but the unique voice and viewpoint are Jemisin's alone." (Neil Gaiman)
"Some of the most exciting and powerful fantasy writing of today... Jemisin's latest will attract...even those who don't typically read genre fiction." (Booklist, starred review)
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- Chrisitenne Chenier
- 2021-02-06
The narrator knocked it out of the park!
I’m not a sci-fi person. I tried this book after numerous people recommended it, including as a gateway to sci-fi. I still don’t like sci-fi, but the character development was incredible and the plot was gripping. It was the narrator, though, who blew this out of the water. The music and sound effects of course take it that step further, but even without those few little flourishes, the narration was the best I’ve heard. Distinctive voices, perfect accents, vocalizations and laughs and sighs that brought the book to life.
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- David Flett
- 2021-01-18
Incredible
Absolutely awesome. The story is great and the narration is just incredible and elevated the already great work.
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- zahava lambert
- 2020-12-29
Great Fun
A love letter to cities and especially NewYork by the supernaturally talented N.K.Jemisin. Full of fun but also insight into characters and what shapes them. Brought to life by the superlative performance of Robin.It is not just her ability with accents, but her intonation, characterization, emphasis and timing that bring this book to coherence and life. BRavo to both author and reader.
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- Renee Ferguson
- 2020-10-09
True story...I think lol
I enjoyed that thoroughly. A way to open up the conversation a out gentrification, great.
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- Cory V
- 2020-08-31
Unique idea with some flaws
I'm excited to read more of Jemisin. Loved how original this book was and I'm excited to be exposed to more of this creativity. I wanted to get to know the characters more and see them develop. I felt this book struggled a bit with pacing. The first half (maybe even a bit more) felt like a very long introduction. Because it takes place over such a short period we didn't really see character development. The audiobook production quality is fantastic.
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- Amazon Customer
- 2020-07-25
Listen to this one for sure!
Loved this book as I have loved all her other works! So disappointed when I had finished and now have to wait for the second book in this series!
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- J.Brandon Foran
- 2020-06-29
Miles above the rest.
Not being a fan of the Fantasy genre, I almost returned this book early into it. But I continued based on the NYT review and have been greatly rewarded. This is a very good book that’s made better by the best narration I’ve come across.
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- Jennifer from Montreal
- 2020-06-28
Incredible voice performance, disappointing story
I had such high hopes for The City We Became, and I was so impressed by the prologue that I rushed out and bought a print copy of the book to give as a gift. Alas, I should have waited. While the underlying conceit of cities having avatars is cool, the story itself was flat and predictable, and the characters were poorly fleshed out. In addition, while I share the author’s politics and was happy to read a story where white people aren’t centred, I was disappointed that there was so little nuance in how any of the characters were depicted, including a Lenape woman whose Indigenous identity felt awkwardly crammed on.
While I don’t recommend this book, I do recommend the narrator, Robin Miles. She made an otherwise boring book bearable.
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- Joe
- 2020-04-13
I don't understand the hype
Stereotypical characters, cringeworthy dialogue, boring plot. Essentially an expanded wikipedia entry about NYC, not a good thing. Like a marvel movie, no real stakes, just wait until another superhero arrives with greater powers. No matter how many fantastical things happen, characters are somehow surprised each time.
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- dk
- 2020-04-13
Fresh, Unique, So Good.
I listen to a lot of audiobooks, but rarely write reviews. After listening to this book though, I just had to. Everything about this listen was fantastic. I've read other Jemisin works, and liked them all, but this is by far my favorite. I love scifi and fantasy, but sometimes it's hard to find truly new and unique stories and characters. This book though, is like nothing else I've read. Just so great and original, with diverse and interesting characters that felt like real people/cities. ;)
Also, the audio production was one of the best I've ever heard - maybe even better than Dune! Robin Miles was a phenomenal narrator. I can hardly believe she voiced all those characters! To be able to do all those NY accents so well, AND a fairly decent British accent? Crazy. The suble audio effects were just perfect, and icing on the cake.
Just buy this book now. Seriously.
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- ByEqualMeasure - julie
- 2020-09-04
Good Potential
I can not recommend this book.
The story was very well produced. Excellent narration.
However the ending was abrupt. After it was over I was left wholly dissatisfied. The author does not flesh out the antagonist. A lot of clues are given to the fact perhaps the cities are wronging and killing -however, inadvertently trillions across the multiverse. Then it is over with all the questions still in place. For that reason I can't recommend this as an enjoyable read. To say that you are right just because an alien looks different or is baised on different physical laws with different angles doesn't work for me.
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- Jenny
- 2020-06-10
Interesting worldbuilding but so what?
I like N.K. Jemisin but I don't always read past the first book of her series, and I think a closer examination of my feelings of this book help explain why.
In the book, people are transformed into different boroughs of New York City (one person per borough,) because the city is under attack. Some stereotypes are at play in those sections but it's fun as each person is "discovered." They each seem to have other characteristics in addition to their city presences that make them an asset to the team. Originally, while enjoying this part of the book, I was also partially annoyed because here I am with one more book that is completely focused on New York as if its the only place in the world. A very diverse view of the city, of course, but still it's just the city. I will agree to suspend my judgment on this feeling that so many New Yorkers seem to have because I've never been. But as a non New-Yorker, I must admit to a bit of prejudice against another NY novel.
Anyway, along with this transformation comes the ability to see a layer of the city that is hidden to others - warping and relocating of borders, wormlike invasions that reminded me of all the demon-possession novels I read in my fundamentalist childhood (ha!), and a woman in white who seems able to fill the tiniest or endless space. There are hints of multiple dimensions and she also seems to be a master of spaceTIME as well, knowing what will happen, and what would happen in alternate dimensions. (I was interested in her world but we only see tiny glimpses.) Some of the boroughs join up and fight evil until they find the last borough, and hijinks ensue.
But ... I mean, that's kind of it. I enjoyed the worldbuilding to a certain extent, but then felt like - so what? Why did I sit through all those hours of audio? I thought I missed something so I've listened to the end three times and I'm like okay... that's it? I don't even know what is going to matter enough to consume books 2 and 3.
I get that there is an underlying metaphor going on of the danger to New York being racism. Good, timely. But what's the story moving forward?
That's all I'm left feeling really. I'm not sure I'm left with anything to fight for or care about.
I listened to the audio and Robin Miles is excellent as always; I felt the times the production people decided to use effects were ... the wrong choice. Characters who are thinking to themselves suddenly having reverb, some sentences stalling like on a bad internet connection, some unnecessary screeching - it wasn't all the time, thank goodness, but the times it happened felt too often.
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- C
- 2020-04-20
Amazing accents
As someone who has chosen to be a New Yorker, I appreciate this love letter to the city. I liked the author's insights into each borough's personality. Also, as my title stated, I loved the narrator's different accents. She has so much soul and sass. This is the first time I enjoyed listening to the disclaimer at the end of the audiobook, so I hope whoever reads this listens until the end of the recording.
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- TX lilbit
- 2020-04-17
Absolutely amazing - cathartic love letter to NYC
Wow - I’m not usually a sci-fi fan. New York and all of its wonderful millions has been in my thoughts with the current corona virus crisis so I gave this a shot, and it may be my favorite audiobook in a dozen years of heavy audiobook consumption. This author has poured their love of the city into this super entertaining pro-diversity/interconnectedness/liberal democracy allegory. And the narrator! Robin Miles deserves a Tony for her incredible diverse yet accurate characters and the heart she puts into each one.Those whose politics and values give them trouble with it - well, as the author points out, they still have Lovecraft :-).
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- amy
- 2020-05-28
horrible book
Couldn't finish this book. I kept thinking it would hook me but never did. made it about half way and had to give up. will be returning this book! most is nonsense, author called everyone racist and white men are evil every chance she got. I could have done without that prejudice.
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- Jonathanji
- 2020-05-06
Absolutely phenomenal!
Listening to an N.K. Jemisin story read by Robin Miles is like witnessing Serena Williams dominate while Beyoncé performs the soundtrack. This story is incredible. Robin Miles is peerless in her performance. I hope there are more stories to follow.
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- Amazon Customer
- 2020-04-18
Brilliant and Expertly Produced
This is the best From this author which is saying a lot. It is supremely gratifying to have it so well performed and produced. I am in Harlem during coronavirus nyc so this is especially poignant. Thank you Ms. Jemisin, Ms Miles and all those behind this stunning experience.
I do wish I had been a copy editor. New York has no payday loan shops. They are illegal. New Jersey Transit? I have never seen a dining car. I appreciate the author occasionally adopting founder over flounder. Nonetheless this IS, make no mistake, a masterpiece. The rhythms of the soliloquy, the voices of the characters-- astonishing.
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- nightowl
- 2020-03-28
NKJ has done it again
Amazing new work from NKJ, accompanied by a stunning audio production! Gripping, funny, engaging, visceral, absolutely worth your time.
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