Fledgling: A NovelFledgling, Octavia Butlers last novel, is the story of an apparently young, amnesiac girl whose alarmingly un human needs and abilities lead her to a startling conclusion: she is in fact a genetically modified, 53 year old vampire. Forced to discover what she can about her stolen former life, she must at the same time learn who wantedand still wantsto destroy her and those she cares for, and how she can save herself. Fledgling is a captivating novel

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it is impossible to ignore Čapek’s prescience

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"50TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION—WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY DAVID MITCHELL AND A NEW AFTERWORD BY CHARLIE JANE ANDERS

A philandering husband receives a bestial punishment from a wife with her own secrets to keep

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It alternates between passages that painstakingly describe the protagonist’s fraught attempts to write his novel and such scenes of service work as wrapping children’s books for Silver Lake moms and being “pilloried by dunces” on Yelp