![]() ![]() ![]() Meanwhile the novel followed three women, Damaya, Syenite, and Essun, who at the end are revealed to be the same person at different ages. To recap: in the first book in this trilogy, a man named Alabaster rent apart the continent in an attempt to break this cycle of racism and mistreatment, causing the season to end all seasons. Elsewhere “roggas”, as they are derogatively called in a discomfiting allusion to the treatment of Black people, are murdered, enslaved, and generally treated like shit. Some of the humans have a geological power, known as orogeny, which is illegal except for an elite force called the Fulcrum. Ironic because every now and then the continent is racked by catastrophic geological events (known as Fifth Seasons) which drive the human population into survivalist mode. Jemisin’s Broken Earth trilogy, set in alternative world known ironically as the Stillness. The Obelisk Gate is the second part of N. ![]()
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