As a person who hasn't read this and doesn't particularly plan to (NK Jemisin is wonderful but also hit-or-miss for me), I'm very curious what additional thoughts your book club will bring to bear!

tbh I really liked the short story that was the seed of this novel but have been baffled by the idea of there being a full novel just about one city. Like, I want to know more about the politics of cities and avatars and how the avatars try to fuck with each other and how much the avatars change their cities (as opposed to the cities delineating the avatars).