"This masterful work positions Lu among the vanguard of contemporary futurism and speculative fiction."—Publishers Weekly,starred reviewIn the tradition of Italo Calvino’sInvisible Cities, debut author S. Qiouyi Lu has written a multifaceted story of borders, power, diaspora, and transformation withIn the Watchful City.The city of Ora is watching.Anima is an extrasensory human tasked with surveilling and protecting Ora’s citizens via a complex living network called the Gleami