The City We Became by N.K. Jemisin
Bookclub: The Colour of Beauty: Productions of Race in Contemporary Fiction
Selected by Christopher Counihan.
Our new bookclub starts on 04.12.21 from 6-7pm in the Fruitmarket and highlights fiction by authors of colour. Placing the idea of beauty at the centre, it aims to challenge how we see and appreciate alternative literary aesthetics and narratives. Rather than centring the white experience and the education of white people, the bookclub seeks to provide an essential space for healing and production, to discuss and appreciate the flourishing of a rhetoric for communities of colour.
In our first novel, The City We Became, acclaimed sci-fi author N.K. Jemisin tells the story of how New York City came to be what it is. Emphasising the city’s differing cultural influences, she shows how New York is not simply built of a singular hegemonic culture and idea, but instead is a space derived of cultural multitudes. This offers the reader an alternative perspective on the contemporary city, one in which the notion of race is considered and, as such, made beautiful and productive.
Find out more about the bookclub here.
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
ISBN: 9780356512686
Number of pages: 480
Weight: 320 g
Dimensions: 198 x 126 x 34 mm