4 a.m., New York City. A silent disaster.<\/b>\u00a0There is no flash of light, no crumbling, no quaking. Each person in New York wakes up on an unfamiliar block when the buildings all switch locations overnight. The power grid has snapped, thousands of residents are missing, and the Empire State Building is on Coney Island\u2014for now. The next night, it happens again.<\/p>\n
Esme Green and Arjun Varma work for the City of New York\u2019s Emergency Management team and are tasked with disaster response for \u201cThe Unmapping.\u201d As Esme tries to wade through the bureaucratic nightmare of an endlessly shuffling city, she\u2019s distracted by the ongoing search for her missing fianc\u00e9. Meanwhile, Arjun focuses on the ground-level rescue of disoriented New Yorkers, hoping to become the hero the city needs.<\/p>\n
While scientists scramble to find a solution\u2014or at least a means to cope\u2014and mysterious \u201cred cloak\u201d cults crop up in the disaster\u2019s wake, New York begins to reckon with a new reality no one recognizes. For Esme and Arjun, the fight to hold the city together will mean tackling questions about themselves that they were too afraid to ask\u2014and facing answers they never expected. With themes of climate change, political unrest, and life in a state of emergency,\u00a0The Unmapping<\/i>\u00a0is a timely and captivating debut.<\/p>\n