The Obelisk Gate

The Obelisk Gate is the second volume of N. K. Jemisin's Broken Earth trilogy, picking up in the aftermath of the world-ending catastrophe that opened The Fifth Season. Essun has found shelter in Castrima, an underground community where orogenes and ordinary people uneasily share space, but her search for her stolen daughter is not over. Alabaster, the man who cracked the continent, asks her to learn a use of orogeny that no one has attempted in ages, one that could reshape the fate of the Stillness. Far away, Essun's daughter Nassun grows into her own power under the guidance of a man Essun would never have chosen, and the choices ahead of her carry the same weight as her mother's. The book won the Hugo Award for Best Novel, making Jemisin the first author to win the category in two consecutive years.