Sure-one of those women is a 30-something-year-old Vampire who looks like a little girl, and the other one an involuntary time-traveling warehouse / factory worker and writer, (which, except maybe for the time-traveling, Butler herself had been when she wrote it). It also features a young Black woman who forms a survivalist, utopian in a dystopian community of mutual assistance and protection.īut the fourth and last of her novels are particularly about two Black women navigating relationships with white individuals as well as white power structures. The Parable of the Sower, for instance, depicts an Evangelical Strongman elected president with the slogan "Make America Great Again," and reinstitutes a system of debt-slavery that abuses all kinds of vulnerable people. Octavia Butler’s breathtaking body of work deals broadly with racism, as well as with other -isms, inequalities on this planet, and on others. But I know that won’t matter if we don’t survive these times. I don’t know whether good times are coming back again. I'll be looking for more of her work.That’s all anybody can do right now.
I enjoyed her voice(s) and her narration was fluid enough and passionate enough that I often forgot I was listening to someone read the story. There were a number of social and psychological lessons to be appreciated here, though the story does not appear to be written primarily as a message-novel. It addressed and portrayed unusual relationships, cultural baggage, loss, triumph-often loss and triumph were intermixed-love, difficulties in getting past appearances and personal paradigms, courage under immense pressure, evil, complacence, duty, and sense of duty.It is a complex story from a complex author, but without the author talking down to the reader, and well worth the read. I really wish the author hadn't passed away not long after publishing this, as I'd really like to read more stories based on the premise.This story seems to have many layers which appealed to me. This has to be one of the most common-sensical, tragic, and heart-warming approaches to the vampire legend I've ever read or listened to.
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