Description
When a mysterious plague wipes out most of humanity, a young woman named Shori is forced into an impossible bargain: to survive, she must become the caretaker of a new kind of world. In a remote, carefully controlled community, she is tasked with raising and shaping genetically engineered children—each designed to carry forward the fragile promise of the future. As Shori’s understanding of her role deepens, the story turns into a tense exploration of power, identity, and what it means to protect life when the rules of society have collapsed. With Octavia E. Butler’s incisive, character-driven style, this novel blends speculative invention with moral urgency, asking how far we’ll go to rebuild—and who gets to decide what “human” should mean.
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paperback
Grand Central Publishing
Published Jan 1, 2020
240 pages
ISBN: 9781538751503
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First Published
1984
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Clay's Ark by Octavia E. Butler.