<b>THIS IS THE WAY THE WORLD ENDS. AGAIN. </b><br><br>Three terrible things happen in a single day.<br><br>Essun, masquerading as an ordinary schoolteacher in a quiet small town, comes home to find that her husband has brutally murdered their son and kidnapped their daughter. Mighty Sanze, the empire whose innovations have been civilization's bedrock for a thousand years, collapses as its greatest city is destroyed by a madman's vengeance. And worst of all, across the heartland of the world's sole continent, a great red rift has been been torn which spews ash enough to darken the sky for years. Or centuries.<br><br>But this is the Stillness, a land long familiar with struggle, and where orogenes -- those who wield the power of the earth as a weapon -- are feared far more than the long cold night. Essun has remembered herself, and she will have her daughter back.<br><br>She does not care if the world falls apart around her. Essun will break it herself, if she must, to save her daughter.<div><br></div><div><br></div><div>The first novel in a new series by award winning author N. K. Jemisin where a mother struggles to find her daughter in a post-apocalpytic world.</div>