27 January 2020
Nora Jemisin is still getting used to Bed-Stuy. It's a dreary winter Tuesday, and she's settled into a seat at one of her favored local haunts, the Brown Butter Café, where she's welcomed more as a local than as the resident celebrity author. The Brooklyn neighborhood, where she's lived for two years, still feels new to her; she spent more than a decade in her beloved Crown Heights but was forced out due to rising rents. She's quick to point out that even in her new neighborhood, gentrification is starting to creep in.