In so doing, she dramatizes the cues and subtexts that underlie even the most outwardly mundane of everyday interactions into an intensely compelling science fiction story.Īnd yet, a core component of Jemisin's premise in The City We Became demands that she do something that few authors have ever successfully attempted-tell a story that in some sense has no characters, but instead offers as its protagonists embodiments of the book's core themes. The major actors in The City We Became do not act as people exactly, but rather as ideas instantiated in human form. By blending concepts as diverse as the true nature of social constructs, what it takes for fictional stories to become “real,” and some of the more bewildering implications of the many-worlds interpretation of quantum physics, Jemisin manages to explore hidden dimensions of social existence and racism. The City We Became is an intensely political work of speculative fiction charting two distinct storylines, with both layers of the novel's narrative producing unexpected insights and parallels as they are superimposed atop one another.
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