The Butler Effect: How Octavia Butler Changed My Life
Excerpt from a new anthology of writing about sci fi author Octavia Butler and her power to transform lives.
1. I’m at a fashion show in my junior year of high school, a biracial Congolese-American geek surrounded not by Africans, but by African Americans. I don’t look out of place, but I feel it. Even the book vendor’s tables have nothing that represents my experience: second-generation halfrican raised in middle-class white suburbia.
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