Fledgling
“I found most of the vampires in Butler’s final novel, Fledgling, somehow reassuring…If you’re intrigued by humanistic, hopeful vampire lore, I can’t recommend Fledgling more highly.”
New York Times
A New York Times Pick of New & Noteworthy Books
An Oprah Magazine Pick of Best Vampire Books
Shori is a mystery. Found alone in the woods, she appears to be a little black girl with traumatic amnesia and near-fatal wounds. But Shori is a fifty-three-year-old vampire with a ravenous hunger for blood, the lost child of an ancient species of near-immortals who live in dark symbiosis with humanity. Genetically modified to be able to walk in daylight, Shori now becomes the target of a vast plot to destroy her and her kind. And in the final apocalyptic battle, her survival will depend on whether all humans are bigots—or all bigots are human.
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