Star Child: A Biographical Constellation of Octavia Estelle ButlerFrom 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

Sawyer was a troubled teen who shot and killed six kids at a local high school before taking his own life

especially her long-held desire to learn to read

winners and losers

and so Afi must see it through

Just a few years after his introduction to indoor plumbing and the automobile

the loved ones

history-making inventions that started out as crazy ideas

William Barber II

were busily focused on her survival

Ever since

They Both Die at the End meets The Bell Jar in this haunting

to make their own choices for their lives and bodies