Dawn: Lilith's Brood (Book 1)

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One of the most significant literary artists of the twentieth century JUNOT DIAZ

Octavia Butler was playing out our very real possibilities as humans. I think she can help each of us to do the same GLORIA STEINEM

One woman is called upon to reconstruct humanity in this hopeful, thought-provoking novel by the bestselling, award-winning author. For readers of Margaret Atwood, Toni Morrison and Ursula K. Le Guin.

When Lilith lyapo wakes in a small white room with no doors or windows, she remembers a devastating war, and a husband and child long lost to her.

She finds herself living among the Oankali, a strange race who intervened in the fate of humanity hundreds of years before. They spared those they could from the ruined Earth, and suspended them in a long, deep sleep.

Over centuries, the Oankali learned from the past, cured disease and healed the world. Now they want Lilith to lead her people back home. But salvation comes at a price - to restore humanity, it must be changed forever...

PRAISE FOR OCTAVIA E. BUTLER, THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR

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 s prose, always pared back to the bone, delineates the painful paradoxes of metamorphosis with compelling precision GUARDIAN

Octavia Butler was a visionary VIOLA DAVIS

Her evocative, often troubling, novels explore far-reaching issues of race, sex, power and, ultimately,
what it means to be human NEW YORK TIMES

An icon of the Afrofuturism world, envisioning literary realms that placed black characters front and center VANITY FAIR

Butler writes with such a familiarity that the alien is welcome and intriguing. She really artfully exposes our human impulse to self-destruct LUPITA NYONG O

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OCTAVIA E. BUTLER (1947-2006) was the renowned author of numerous ground-breaking novels, including Kindred, Wild Seed, and Parable of the Sower. Recipient of the Locus, Hugo and Nebula awards, and a PEN Lifetime Achievement Award for her body of work, in 1995 she became the first science-fiction writer to receive the MacArthur Fellowship Genius Grant . A pioneer of her genre, Octavia s dystopian novels explore myriad themes of Black injustice, women s rights, global warming and political disparity, and her work is taught in over two hundred colleges and universities nationwide.

In 2020, Octavia E. Butler became a New York Times bestselling author.

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