Fledgling

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'The Octavia Butler novel for our times' THE ATLANTIC

'My book of the year . . . completely devours the genre which gave rise to it' JUNOT DIAZ

The final ground-breaking novel from renowned, bestselling author Octavia E. Butler.

A young girl wakes up in the woods, gravely injured and…

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1 author picked Fledgling as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

David Kubicek

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The Ina are an ancient race known as vampires to humans.

They have coexisted with humans and have entered into symbiotic relationships with humans to the point that they depend on humans for survival.

I fell in love with Shori, the young Ina main character, who wakes up in a cave barely alive with no memory of her past life.

Her perseverance and her loyalty to her own human symbionts as she searches for the answers to her past—while she is still a target of those who murdered her family— are what endeared her to me.

From David's 3 favorite reads in 2023.