This month, she was awarded a MacArthur Foundation “genius” grant. The Iowa-born writer (and former educational psychologist) has lived there for much of her adult life. Jemisin has described the book as a love letter to New York. This is the premise underlying three-time Hugo – and multiple other – award-winning fantasy and science fiction writer NK Jemisin’s latest novel, The City We Became, the start of a Great Cities trilogy. Wherever they started, what they bring when they arrive in the city feeds its becoming.
If Joburg was a person, who would they be? The great-grandchild of a mining man off the coal train from Mozambique, now making art in Melville? A Northcliff banker with a giant gas braai, a thatched boma and a brace of boerbulls primed to attack? Or a righteously angry street trader shaking her fist and cursing in Shona as the cops trash her table and steal her stock? Or someone else, still? It’s the people living there who give cities their souls.
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