One cannot finish Kindred without feeling changed. the novel one returns to, again and again * Harlan Ellison * If you've ever tweeted 'All Lives Matter', someone needs to shove Kindred into your hand, and quickly * The Pool * No novel I've read this year has felt as relevant, as gut-wrenching or as essential.

evocative, often troubling, novels explore far-reaching issues of race, sex, power and, ultimately, what it means to be human * New York Times * One cannot exaggerate the impact she has had - Junot Diazīutler's prose, always pared back to the bone, delineates the painful paradoxes of metamorphosis with compelling precision * Guardian *Ī dark, compelling and still horribly resonant time travel story * Independent * One of the most significant literary artists of the twentieth century. 'Her evocative, often troubling, novels explore far-reaching issues of race, sex, power and, ultimately, what it means to be human' NEW YORK TIMES 'Octavia Butler was a visionary' VIOLA DAVIS 'One of the most significant literary artists of the twentieth century' JUNOT DIAZ 'Butler's prose, always pared back to the bone, delineates the painful paradoxes of metamorphosis with compelling precision' GUARDIAN I think she can help each of us to do the same' GLORIA STEINEM 'Octavia Butler was playing out our very real possibilities as humans. for sheer peculiar prescience, Butler's novel may be unmatched' NEW YORKER 'In the ongoing contest over which dystopian classic is most applicable to our time. BUTLER, THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR Jodahs is a child of the Earth and stars, born from the union between humans and the Oankali, who saved humanity from destruction centuries before.īut Jodahs is approaching adulthood, a metamorphosis that will take him beyond gender and family, and into a great but dangerous unknown.įrightened and alone, Jodahs must come to terms with this new identity, learn to master lifechanging powers and bring together what's left of humankind - or become the biggest threat to their survival. Butler, the acclaimed Lilith's Brood trilogy concludes with the story of Jodah, child of the Earth and stars, who risks the future of humanity just by growing up.

'An icon of the Afrofuturism world, envisioning literary realms that placed black characters front and center' VANITY FAIRįrom literary pioneer Octavia E. She really artfully exposes our human impulse to self-destruct' LUPITA NYONG'O 'Butler writes with such a familiarity that the alien is welcome and intriguing.

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