A Coretta Scott King Author Honor Book
A Walter Dean Myers Honor Book
From the
New York Times
bestselling author and National Book Award finalist, a biography in verse and prose of science fiction visionary Octavia Butler, author of
Parable of the Sower
and
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 experienced 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.