The World We Make (Great Cities #2)Four time Hugo Award winning and New York Times bestselling author N. K. Jemisin crafts a glorious tale of identity, resistance, magic and myth. All is not well in the city that never sleeps. Even though the avatars of New York City have temporarily managed to stop the Woman in White from invading and destroying the entire universe in the process the mysterious capital "E" Enemy has more subtle powers at her disposal. A new candidate for mayor

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she's never felt more alone in her life

where the enslaved are broken

any young person facing adversity

Amara's Farm is the first entry in the Where in the Garden

twenty-eight-year-old Grace Porter goes on a girls' trip to Vegas to celebrate

deftly chronicle poignant moments in the lives of an African American community located in a "sliver of southern suburbia

she will finally learn to control her gift

finding comrades in curiosity

a slow-burn horror that lifts a veil on the institutions that profit on exclusion and the toll of giving everything to a world that will never love you back

and violence perpetrated against her by Mareen's Tribunal Council and exposing her illegal blood-gift to save her Praetorian squad

she resorts to a dangerous game to keep her family afloat