How Long 'til Black Future Month?: Stories [Hardcover]

Three-time Hugo Award winner andNYTbestselling 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.

Marvelous and wide-ranging. -- Los Angeles Times Gorgeous -- NPR Books Breathtakingly imaginative and narratively bold. -- Entertainment Weekly

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.N. K. Jemisinis a Brooklyn author who won the Hugo Award for Best Novel forThe Fifth Season, which was also aNew York TimesNotable Book of 2015. She previously won the Locus Award for her first novel,The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, and her short fiction and novels have been nominated multiple times for Hugo, World Fantasy, Nebula, and RT Reviewers' Choice awards, and shortlisted for the Crawford and the James Tiptree, Jr. awards. She is a science fiction and fantasy reviewer for theNew York Times, and you can find her online at nkjemisin.com. The most celebrated science fiction and fantasy writer of her generation... Jemisin seems able to do just about everything. New York Times Jemisin's phenomenal success has been something like an earthquake ripping through the traditional order of fantasy itself. New York/Vulture The most critically acclaimed author in contemporary science fiction and fantasy. GQ Jemisin's stories are discerning, thought-provoking, and beautifully crafted, showcasing a mastlÃ%