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The middle volume expands its trilogy's geological imagination while deepening its portrait of inherited trauma and contested survival.
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The Obelisk Gate
N. K. Jemisin2017 selection · Science fiction & fantasy
The Obelisk Gate
As the Stillness enters a seemingly endless Season, Essun learns to harness the ancient obelisks while her daughter Nassun develops power under very different guidance. Their separate choices converge on whether the damaged world can or should be saved.
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You are ready to continue a demanding epic about family, power, and a broken planet.
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