
The City We Became
N. K. Jemisin
2020

Victor LaValle · 2016
149 pages
New York, 1924. Tommy Tester runs small errands and plays guitar for money, one of the few Black men willing to do business with a sorcerer. Hired by a strange wealthy man in Flatbush, he is drawn toward the Sleeping King and the Great Old Ones, and chooses what kind of power he is willing to serve.
Cosmic, Forbidden Knowledge, Revenge, Morally Grey Character, Creeping Dread