Flutterby™! : Obelisk Gate

It's a mark of good metaphor that the parallels aren't immediately obvious. That as we immerse ourselves in the story we find our own parallels and aha moments. N. K. Jemisin's "The Broken Earth" series isn't an easy read, but "The Fifth Season" kicked me in the gut hard (in a good way) with the ending, and about midway through "The Obelisk Gate" I had a bunch of "holy crap" moments as I took the observations on relationships and power dynamics between children and adults in her fantastical world of geologic magic and mapped it back on to my understanding of humanity. Very challenging reads (a good portion of both books is in second person, the timelines aren't always linear), but damn they're paying off.