Three-time Hugo Award winner andNYTbestselling author N. K. Jemisin challenges and delights readers with thought-provoking narratives of destruction, rebirth, and redemption that sharply examine modern society in her first collection of short fiction, which includes never-before-seen stories."Marvelous and wide-ranging."-Los Angeles Times"Gorgeous"-NPR Books"Breathtakingly imaginative and narratively bold."-Entertainment WeeklySpirits 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. For more from N. K. Jemisin, check out:The Inheritance TrilogyThe Hundred Thousand KingdomsThe Broken KingdomsThe Kingdom of GodsThe Inheritance Trilogy(omnibus edition)Shades in Shadow: An Inheritance Triptych(e-only short fiction)The Awakened Kingdom(e-only novella)Dreamblood DuologyThe Killing MoonThe Shadowed SunThe Dreamblood Duology(omnibus)The Broken EarthThe Fifth SeasonThe Obelisk GateThe Stone Sky | How Long 'til Black Future Month? by N. K. Jemisin, Paperback | Indigo Chapters