A review by crimsoncor
The City in the Middle of the Night by Charlie Jane Anders

5.0

In general, I don't comparisons in the form of "this author is the ___ of their generation". And even in this case, I don't think you can say that Anders is a modern Le Guin as Andrew Sean Green did in his cover blurb. But I do think it is very fair to say that this novel really does feel like a novel Le Guin could have written if she were of this time. Which is to say it is a beautiful and gutting novel about losing yourself to truly find yourself and also about the utter terribleness of humans even when fighting for good things. And mostly it just a story about broken queer women trying to fix a broken world (and maybe themselves) and I loved ever page of it.