How Long 'Til Black Future Month

<b>Three-time Hugo Award winner and <i>NYT</i> bestselling 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.</b><br>"Marvelous and wide-ranging."<b>--Los Angeles Times</b>"Gorgeous"<b> --NPR Books</b>"Breathtakingly imaginative and narratively bold."<b>--Entertainment Weekly</b><br>Spirits 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.<br>For more from N. K. Jemisin, check out:<br><b>The Inheritance Trilogy</b><i>The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms</i><i>The Broken Kingdoms</i><i>The Kingdom of Gods</i><br><i>The Inheritance Trilogy</i> (omnibus edition)<i>Shades in Shadow: An Inheritance Triptych </i>(e-only short fiction)<i>The Awakened Kingdom</i> (e-only novella)<br><b>Dreamblood Duology</b><i>The Killing Moon</i><i>The Shadowed Sun</i><br><i>The Dreamblood Duology </i>(omnibus)<br><b>The Broken Earth</b><i>The Fifth Season</i><i>The Obelisk Gate</i><i>The Stone Sky</i>