From theΒ New York TimesΒ bestselling author and National Book Award finalist, a biography in verse and prose of science fiction visionary Octavia Butler, author ofΒ Parable of the SowerΒ andΒ Kindred.
Acclaimed novelist Ibi Zoboi illuminates the young life of the visionary storyteller Octavia E. Butler in poems and prose. Born into the Space Race, the Red Scare, and the dawning Civil Rights Movement, Butler experiencedΒ an American childhood that shaped her into the groundbreaking science-fiction storyteller whose novels continue to challenge and delight readers fifteen years after her death.
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- 128 pages
- Softcover
- Reading age: 10-12 years
