The City in Glass - Book Club

August's book is by Hugo Award winner Nghi Vo. She has written many short stories, a handful of novellas (including her Hugo winning The Empress of Salt and Fortune), and several novels. Our book is her latest novel, The City in Glass.

Where to find the book (as of 06/20/2025):
(If there are other local sources I should add, let me know)

Hard Copies:
Delaware County Libraries - 4 of 5 copies available
Free Library of Philadelphia - 5 of 9 copies available
Montgomery County Libraries - 10 of 12 copies available

eBooks:
DCL - 0 of 0 copies
FLP - 0 of 6 copies (10 holds)
MCL - 0 of 0 copies

Audiobooks:
DCL - 0 of 0 copies
FLP - 1 of 4 copies
MCL - 0 of 0 copies

Summary:

A demon. An angel. A city that burns at the heart of the world.

The demon Vitrine—immortal, powerful, and capricious—loves the dazzling city of Azril. She has mothered, married, and maddened the city and its people for generations, and built it into a place of joy and desire, revelry and riot.

And then the angels come, and the city falls.

Vitrine is left with nothing but memories and a book containing the names of those she has lost—and an angel, now bound by her mad, grief-stricken curse to haunt the city he burned.

She mourns her dead and rages against the angel she longs to destroy. Made to be each other’s devastation, angel and demon are destined for eternal battle. Instead, they find themselves locked in a devouring fascination that will change them both forever.

Together, they unearth the past of the lost city and begin to shape its future. But when war threatens Azril and everything they have built, Vitrine and her angel must decide whether they will let the city fall again.

The City in Glass is both a brilliantly constructed history and an epic love story, of death and resurrection, memory and transformation, redemption and desire strong enough to burn a world to ashes and build it anew.

Published October 1, 2024
224 pages, 6h 5m