How Long 'til Black Future Month?: Stories

Three-time Hugo Award winner and NYT 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.

'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.