![]() ![]() ‘Octavia Butler was playing out our very real possibilities as humans. Fledgling, Octavia Butler’s last novel, is the story of an apparently young, amnesiac girl whose alarmingly un-human needs and abilities lead her to a startling conclusion: she is in fact a genetically modified, 53-year-old vampire. ‘In the ongoing contest over which dystopian classic is most applicable to our time… for sheer peculiar prescience, Butler’s novel may be unmatched’ NEW YORKER Butler Papers at the Huntington Library include multiple drafts for potential sequels of Fledgling which continue to follow Shori and her growing family as they navigate their relationships and both human and Ina societies. A writer from her poverty-stricken childhood to her death in 2006 at the. ![]() BUTLER, THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR To save herself, Shori must learn anew everything about the power and desires that she holds, the life that was stolen from her – and those who want her dead. The novel appeared three years after Butler won a MacArthur. She is a fifty-three-year-old vampire, and in terrible danger. Butler: Kindred, Fledgling, Collected Stories. Butler.Ī young girl wakes up in the woods, gravely injured and alone, with no memory of what happened or who she is.Īs Shori heals, she realises that she isn’t like the people around her, which leads to a shocking discovery. The final ground-breaking novel from renowned, bestselling author Octavia E. ![]() ![]() completely devours the genre which gave rise to it’ JUNOT DÍAZ ‘The Octavia Butler novel for our times’ THE ATLANTIC ![]()
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