How Long 'Til Black Future Month? |
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Author:
| Jemisin, N. K. |
ISBN: | 978-1-4328-6608-2 |
Publication Date: | Aug 2019 |
Publisher: | Cengage Gale
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Book Format: | Hardback |
List Price: | USD $31.99 |
Book Description:
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A New York Times Bestselling AuthorA Hugo Award Winning AuthorIn the first collection of her evocative short fiction, three-time Hugo Award winner N. K. Jemisin equally challenges and delights readers with thought-provoking narratives of destruction, rebirth, and redemption. Spirits haunt the flooded streets of New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. In a parallel universe, a utopian society watches our world, trying to learn from our mistakes. A black mother in the Jim Crow...
More DescriptionA New York Times Bestselling AuthorA Hugo Award Winning AuthorIn the first collection of her evocative short fiction, three-time Hugo Award winner N. K. Jemisin equally challenges and delights readers with thought-provoking narratives of destruction, rebirth, and redemption. Spirits haunt the flooded streets of New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. In a parallel universe, a utopian society watches our world, trying to learn from our mistakes. A black mother in the Jim Crow South must save her daughter from a fey offering impossible promises. And in the Hugo Award¬-nominated short story "The City Born Great," a young street kid fights to give birth to an old metropolis's soul.