Fledgling Public Policy - City Planning & Urban Development author of Set the World

author of Set the World on Fire

which begins when he is kidnapped in Africa as a boy and sold into slavery and culminates when he has achieved renown as a British antislavery advocate

and Emira is furious and humiliated

A New York Times BestsellerA Washington Post BestsellerNamed a "Best Essay Collection of the Decade" by Literary HubAs a botanist

Fledgling Public Policy - City Planning & Urban Development author of Set the WorldFledgling, Octavia Butlers last novel, is the story of an apparently young, amnesiac girl whose alarmingly un human needs and abilities lead her to a startling conclusion: she is in fact a genetically modified, 53 year old vampire. Forced to discover what she can about her stolen former life, she must at the same time learn who wantedand still wantsto destroy her and those she cares for, and how she can save herself. Fledgling is a captivating novel