Wild Seed

, #1

Paperback, 306 pages

English language

Published April 1, 2001 by Warner Books.

ISBN:
978-0-446-67697-7
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Doro is an entity who changes bodies like clothes, killing his hosts by reflex or design. He fears no one until he meets Anyanwu. Anyanwu is a shapeshifter who can absorb bullets and heal with a kiss and savage anyone who threatens her. She fears no one until she meets Doro. Together they weave a pattern of destiny (from Africa to the New World) unimaginable to mortals.

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reviewed Wild Seed by Octavia E. Butler (Patternmaster, #1)

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This was one of the most disturbing, uncomfortable books I have ever read, because it goes so deep into dehumanisation by those who wield power. And yet I finished it in a week because the key characters and the strange world Butler set up were so compelling.

Subjects

  • African American women -- Fiction
  • Women healers -- Fiction