Star Child: A BIOGRAPHICAL CONSTELLATION OF OCTAVIA ESTELLE BUTLER | IBI ZOBO Scribner There is sadness

There is sadness

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Thurman’s poetic text deftly explores the day-to-day life of a young Black child and her family—their joys and their fears—with a rhythm and musicality perfect for reading aloud

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Star Child: A BIOGRAPHICAL CONSTELLATION OF OCTAVIA ESTELLE BUTLER | IBI ZOBO Scribner There is sadnessFrom 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