- Mystery, Vampires, Fiction, Young women
Shori is a mystery. Found alone in the woods, she appears to be a little black girl with traumatic amnesia and near-fatal wounds. But Shori is a fifty-three-year-old vampire with a ravenous hunger for blood, the lost child of an ancient species of near-immortals who live in dark symbiosis with humanity.
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Contemporary, grave, earnest and epic.
- contemporarynostalgic
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- intimateepic
- classical in formformally daring
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- Author
- Octavia E. Butler
- First published
- 2005
- Pages
- 320
- Publisher
- Aylak Kitap, Headline Publishing Group, Grand Central Publishing
- Editions
- 19
- Language
- French, English
- ISBN
- 9780759571518
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An American science fiction writer, one of the best-known among the few African-American women in the field. [Comment by Tricia Sullivan, on The Guardian][1]: Octavia E Butler (1947–2006) > I was teaching in New York when I came across Octavia E Butler's Kindred in a secondary-school catalogue of novels recommended to support diversity. It caught my attention because Butler was described as a science-fiction writer. I thought I was familiar with science fiction, but I'd never heard of her – nor have a great many other readers, I suspect. For many years, Butler was the sole African-American woman novelist in science fiction. Kindred tells the wrenching and unforgettable story of a young black
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