First published 2011
Avice Benner Cho returns to the outpost city of Embassytown, where humans coexist uneasily with the Ariekei, an alien race that communicates through a language humans can barely understand. When a new Ambassador speaks words the Ariekei have never heard, it triggers a crisis that threatens to tear the community apart. Avice, a unique human who has become a living metaphor in the Ariekei language, must find a way to communicate directly with the Hosts before catastrophe strikes.
Genres: science-fiction, literary-fiction, fantasy
Vibes: atmospheric, suspenseful, thought-provoking
Tropes: first-contact, found-family
Setting: Embassytown
345 pages · Hardcover · Del Rey