Emergency Skin; The City We Became by N. K. Jemisin

Emergency Skin by N. K. Jemisin (Amazon Original Stories, 2019)

★★★★★

Cogent, precise, firmly hopeful novelette that uses the skin metaphor to perfect effect.

And yet…

The City We Became by N. K. Jemisin (Orbit, 2020)

DNF audiobook at 29%. I’m sure I’m in agreement with the politics, but I wasn’t as gripped by ~city magic~ (or Lovecraftian horror, even the good parts) as I needed to be to ride this one out.