Hugo Award Best Novel Winner
The Fifth Season
by N. K. Jemisin
Summary
On a world wracked by recurring apocalypses, people called orogenes can control seismic forces yet live as feared and enslaved outcasts. The novel braids together three women's lives across time as a mother searches for her daughter in the wake of a continent breaking catastrophe. Jemisin builds a furious meditation on oppression, motherhood, and survival, written partly in a striking second person voice.
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Historical Context & Significance
This first volume of the Broken Earth trilogy launched a run in which Jemisin won the Hugo Award for Best Novel three years in a row.