From The World We Make, a fantasy novel about defeating Lovecraftian monsters and fascism with magic and multiculturalism
https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/60399181
From The World We Make, a fantasy novel about defeating Lovecraftian monsters and fascism with magic and multiculturalism
https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/60399181
She lost me when she spoke out against the Internet Archive.
She also joined the dogpile on Isabel Fall, a transwoman, when a bunch of people assumed a story she wrote was transphobic because they didn't look past the title.
Reading up on that now. Goddamn. Twitter and its consequences . . .
Jemisin did apologize: https://nkjemisin.com/2021/07/statement-on-isabel-fall-comments/
Full story, for anyone else who wasn't familiar with what happened: https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/22543858/isabel-fall-attack-helicopter
I dunno what it is about YA twitter, but it seems like a uniquely toxic place even among social media.
this isn't even YA, this is fiction for and by adults
Chronological adults at least, the best YA is often just accessible regular fiction you wouldn’t realize is YA without the label.
Like, “Island of the Blue Dolphins” was only marketed as YA because the only publisher who gave it chance was a YA publisher. Decades later every school kid in CA still reads it afaik, it’s used to teach to literary analysis and ties into social studies modules.
okay but that book's good as hell
That’s the point I was trying to make. Sure, it was marketed as a kids book, but was not written as one. It turned out being a classic used in schools.
Why is it so hard to tell the difference these days?
As far as i can tell the only thing that makes a story ya is slapping the ya label on it. I've read a bunch of ya novels that go as hard as much "adult" fiction.
Oh yeah, I read that story, it was based.
So I remember googling a bit about NK Jemisin when I was reading The City We Became a while back and seeing some stuff about this and being pretty disappointed but this thread has me looking into it more and I ran into this tweet that juxtaposed her apology with her actual involvement in the Twitter mob that harassed Isabel Fall.
It kind of seems like her apology misconstrues her behavior to sound less bad and victim blames Fall.
Yeah, it was really a non-apology.
:yikes:
I didn't know that. Glad I got this at the library rather than buy it.
https://slate.com/culture/2020/04/internet-archive-national-emergency-library-controversy.html