**MAJOR TV SERIES COMING SOON TO DISNEY+** Octavia E. Butler's ground-breaking masterpiece
with an original foreword by Ayòbámi Adébáyò. 'A marvel of imagination empathy and detail' NEW
YORK TIMES 'The marker you should judge all other time-travelling narratives by' GUARDIAN 'One
of the most significant literary artists of the twentieth century. One cannot exaggerate the
impact she has had' JUNOT DIAZ -- In 1976 Dana dreams of being a writer. In 1815 she is
assumed a slave. When Dana first meets Rufus on a Maryland plantation he's drowning. She saves
his life - and it will happen again and again. Neither of them understands his power to summon
her whenever his life is threatened nor the significance of the ties that bind them. And each
time Dana saves him the more aware she is that her own life might be over before it's even
begun. This is the extraordinary story of two people bound by blood separated by so much more
than time. 'No novel I've read this year has felt as relevant as gut-wrenching or as
essential' CAROLINE O'DONOGHUE --PRAISE FOR OCTAVIA E. BUTLER THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING
AUTHOR 'Unnervingly prescient and wise' YAA GYASI 'Butler's evocative often troubling novels
explore far-reaching issues of race sex power and ultimately what it means to be human' NEW
YORK TIMES 'Butler's prose always pared back to the bone delineates the painful paradoxes of
metamorphosis with compelling precision' GUARDIAN 'Octavia Butler was a visionary' VIOLA DAVIS
'An icon of the Afrofuturism world envisioning literary realms that placed black characters
front and center' VANITY FAIR 'Butler writes with such a familiarity that the alien is welcome
and intriguing. She really artfully exposes our human impulse to self-destruct' LUPITA NYONG'O
