Contains all of Octavia E. Butler's short fiction and two essays, the novellas and stories are parables of our contemporary world, pitting human frailty and social and environmental decay against residual strengths of human character and human history.
Larkin, abducted from her parents as a child and raised by members of the Church of Christian America, comes to suspect that Lauren Olamina, leader of the cult Earthseed, is her biological mother.
