{"product_id":"dawn-1-liliths-brood","title":"Dawn #1 Lilith's Brood","description":"\u003cp\u003e'One of the most significant literary artists of the twentieth century' \u003cb\u003eJUNOT DIAZ\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 'Octavia Butler was playing out our very real possibilities as humans. I think she can help each of us to do the same' \u003cb\u003eGLORIA STEINEM\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e One woman is called upon to reconstruct humanity in this hopeful, thought-provoking novel by the bestselling, award-winning author. For readers of Margaret Atwood, Toni Morrison and Ursula K. Le Guin.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e When Lilith lyapo wakes in a small white room with no doors or windows, she remembers a devastating war, and a husband and child long lost to her.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e She finds herself living among the Oankali, a strange race who intervened in the fate of humanity hundreds of years before. They spared those they could from the ruined Earth, and suspended them in a long, deep sleep.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Over centuries, the Oankali learned from the past, cured disease and healed the world. Now they want Lilith to lead her people back home. But salvation comes at a price - to restore humanity, it must be changed forever...\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ePRAISE FOR OCTAVIA E. BUTLER, THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 'In the ongoing contest over which dystopian classic is most applicable to our time... for sheer peculiar prescience, Butler's novel may be unmatched' \u003cb\u003eNEW YORKER\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 'Butler's prose, always pared back to the bone, delineates the painful paradoxes of metamorphosis with compelling precision' \u003cb\u003eGUARDIAN\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 'Octavia Butler was a visionary' \u003cb\u003eVIOLA DAVIS\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 'Her evocative, often troubling, novels explore far-reaching issues of race, sex, power and, ultimately,\u003cbr\u003e what it means to be human' \u003cb\u003eNEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 'An icon of the Afrofuturism world, envisioning literary realms that placed black characters front and center' \u003cb\u003eVANITY FAIR\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 'Butler writes with such a familiarity that the alien is welcome and intriguing. She really artfully exposes our human impulse to self-destruct' \u003cb\u003eLUPITA NYONG'O\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Unity Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43583177031877,"sku":"","price":28.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0625\/6679\/3413\/files\/Dawn.jpg?v=1716626350","url":"https:\/\/unitybooks.myshopify.com\/products\/dawn-1-liliths-brood","provider":"Unity Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}