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raymond_murphy 's review for:
The City We Became
by N.K. Jemisin
Very insightful and earnest and sweet. Also, sometimes--if not frequently--corny, but what do you expect a Philadelphian to think of a navel gazing New Yorker's ode to their city?
I ultimately loved it for two reasons: 1) It's BIPOC centered and 2) It's pro-city, but not in an annoying urbanist way, but more in the "let your freak flag fly/live and let live" manner that I associate with people who see cities as a challenge to conformity vs. a new frontier to be colonized by whiteness, i.e., "oh my god, my packages got stolen!" or "that music is too loud, let me call the cops!"
What resonated most for me was challenging a zero-sum/binary view of existence. Adding the Lenape layer was especially smart. What does it mean to have to vanquish a universe, other than your own, in order to survive?
I ultimately loved it for two reasons: 1) It's BIPOC centered and 2) It's pro-city, but not in an annoying urbanist way, but more in the "let your freak flag fly/live and let live" manner that I associate with people who see cities as a challenge to conformity vs. a new frontier to be colonized by whiteness, i.e., "oh my god, my packages got stolen!" or "that music is too loud, let me call the cops!"
What resonated most for me was challenging a zero-sum/binary view of existence. Adding the Lenape layer was especially smart. What does it mean to have to vanquish a universe, other than your own, in order to survive?