Is it necessary to the plot of the book that there only be a handful of cities that have avatar-ized? Because that in itself seems a form of New York exceptionalism that I find annoying. Like, I'm glad New Orleans at least got a mention, because what I really want after reading this post is a book about the New Orleans avatar. Or what happens to an avatar when a city is destroyed? What happened to Hiroshima and Nagasaki and Volgograd and Dresden after WWII? What's going to happen to Jakarta and Miami as the waters rise? How does Rome feel about being sacked so many times? What happened to Constantinople when the Ottomans took over? I HAVE SO MANY QUESTIONS.