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Star Child: A Biographical Constellation of Octavia Estelle Butler

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By (author): Ibi Zoboi

National Book Award finalist 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. An acclaimed and bestselling author Zoboi's work is familiar on both bestseller and awards lists. Her novel in verse Punching the Air was an instant bestseller and was honored with a Walter Award and the LA Times Book Prize. Zoboi has a unique connection with Butler. They share a birthday and she studied with Butler at Clarion Workshop near the end of Butler's life. Features Butler's own words and photos of documents from her childhood. Zoboi spent a week with Butler's papers at the Huntington Library in Los Angeles. Octavia Butler is more relevant than ever. Butler's work is ascendent in the popular imagination. Adaptations are in the works, including an FX series based on Kindred slated for 2022. Her most famous novels have been adapted into bestselling graphic novels. See more
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Product Details
  • Weight: 159g
  • Dimensions: 151 x 227mm
  • Publication Date: 03 Jan 2023
  • Publisher: Dutton Books for Young Readers
  • Publication City/Country: United States
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9780399187407

About Ibi Zoboi

Ibi Zoboi was born in Port-au-Prince Haiti and holds an MFA in writing for children and young adults from Vermont College of Fine Arts. Her YA novel American Street was a National Book Award finalist and and her debut middle grade novel My Life as an Ice Cream Sandwich was a New York Times bestseller. She is the author of Pride a contemporary YA remix of Jane Austens Pride and Prejudice and editor of the anthology Black Enough: Stories of Being Young & Black in America. Her most recent bestseller Punching the Air is a YA novel in verse co-authored by prison reform activist Yusef Salaam of the Exonerated Five. Her debut picture book The People Remember earned a Coretta Scott King Honor. Raised in New York City Ibi now lives in New Jersey with her husband and their three children.

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