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2023 Reread:
I'm in the midst of a stressful move and have reread mindlessly most of Butlers books but found myself really relaxing into this.

OB is my favorite author, and I reread her novels every year.
I only update them here when the reading is significant for me.


2021 Reread:
I hate the audiobook narrator. Her voice is grating and annoying.
Can Robin Miles redo these audiobooks as well????

Somehow, my reread created a 2nd entry for this book. I erased it. 2/16/20

This is the first novel I ever read by Octavia Butler. I'm now a grandmother, but when I read this, my daughter was 6 months old. I still have the paperback with the white woman on the cover. LOL! Imagine my surprise when the main character was a statuesque black woman, extremely capable, practical, and a natural leader. OB has been my favorite author ever since.
This novel was published in 1987, and some of the politics and technology are dated. This deals with a future in which a nuclear holocaust has laid waste to the Earth. Western nations were especially hard hit. Lilith Iyapo is studying in South America when the crisis happens. She survives the initial explosion and is rescued. Her rescuers are not anything she could've ever imagined. The Oankali are the most unique aliens I have ever read about. They travel thorough space in a living ship looking for mates and are as much our captors as our rescuers.