Star Child: A BIOGRAPHICAL CONSTELLATION OF OCTAVIA ESTELLE BUTLER | IBI ZOBO Scribner Thurman’s poetic text deftly explores

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

held captive by the secretive king

He contrasts his tragic-comedic love life with the ideals he had formed from bingeing (straight

capturing its vast expanse and urban landscape in an entirely new light

Star Child: A BIOGRAPHICAL CONSTELLATION OF OCTAVIA ESTELLE BUTLER | IBI ZOBO Scribner Thurman’s poetic text deftly exploresFrom 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