Frightened and isolated, Jodahs must either come to terms with this new identity, learn to control new powers, and unite what's left of humankind - or become the biggest threat to their survival. But when he reaches adolescence, Jodahs develops the ooloi abilities to shapeshift, manipulate DNA, cure and create disease, and more. Throughout his childhood, Jodahs seemed to be a male human-alien hybrid. Now, for the first time in the humans' relationship with the Oankali, a human mother has given birth to an ooloi child: Jodahs. The Oankalis' greatest skill lies in the species' ability to constantly adapt and evolve, a process that is guided by their third sex, the ooloi, who are able to read and mutate genetic code. Since a nuclear war decimated the human population, the remaining humans began to rebuild their future by interbreeding with an alien race - the Oankali - who saved them from near-certain extinction. 'Octavia Butler was playing out our very real possibilities as humans.From the award-winning author of Parable of the Sower: After the near-extinction of humanity, a new kind of alien-human hybrid must come to terms with their identity - before their powers destroy what is left of humankind. 'Her evocative, often troubling, novels explore far-reaching issues of race, sex, power and, ultimately, what it means to be human' NEW YORK TIMES 'Octavia Butler was a visionary' VIOLA DAVIS

'One of the most significant literary artists of the twentieth century' JUNOT DIAZ 'Butler's prose, always pared back to the bone, delineates the painful paradoxes of metamorphosis with compelling precision' GUARDIAN I think she can help each of us to do the same' GLORIA STEINEM Liliths Brood Series Octavia Butler 3 Books Collection Set (Imago, Adulthood Rites, Dawn). 'Octavia Butler was playing out our very real possibilities as humans. for sheer peculiar prescience, Butler's novel may be unmatched' NEW YORKER 'In the ongoing contest over which dystopian classic is most applicable to our time. BUTLER, THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR Jodahs is a child of the Earth and stars, born from the union between humans and the Oankali, who saved humanity from destruction centuries before.īut Jodahs is approaching adulthood, a metamorphosis that will take him beyond gender and family, and into a great but dangerous unknown.įrightened and alone, Jodahs must come to terms with this new identity, learn to master lifechanging powers and bring together what's left of humankind - or become the biggest threat to their survival.

Butler, the acclaimed Lilith's Brood trilogy concludes with the story of Jodah, child of the Earth and stars, who risks the future of humanity just by growing up.

'An icon of the Afrofuturism world, envisioning literary realms that placed black characters front and center' VANITY FAIRįrom literary pioneer Octavia E. She really artfully exposes our human impulse to self-destruct' LUPITA NYONG'O 'Butler writes with such a familiarity that the alien is welcome and intriguing.

Imago by Octavia E. Butler