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Butler's award-winning novel is an almost-prophetic take on a shockingly familiar and deeply relevant world.

But under a tyrannical religious regime who consider the mere existence of a black female leader a threat, Lauren knows she must soon either sacrifice her daughter and her followers - or forsake the beliefs that could transform human destiny.

In her journals, Lauren Olamina tells of a great love divided between her young daughter, her community and the revelation that led her to found a new faith that teaches 'God Is Change'. There are many things she needs to know: how her country could embrace a violent, far-right President promising to make America great again, why they turned a blind eye to the suffering - and the truth about her mother. for sheer peculiar prescience, Butler's novel may be unmatched' New Yorker In order for me to understand who I am, I must begin to understand who she was. 'In the ongoing contest over which dystopian classic is most applicable to our time. If you were glued to THE HANDMAID'S TALE or couldn't put down THE POWER, you'll love this beautiful new edition of a seminal American classic. Butler feel like a prophetic nod to our current world. This sequel to PARABLE OF THE SOWER by ground-breaking writer Octavia E. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. In the tradition of Octavia Butler's Kindred and Madeleine L'Engle's A Wrinkle in Time, A Wish After Midnight is the affecting and inspiring tale of a fearless young woman's fight to hold on to her individuality and her humanity in two different worlds.

Facing the perilous realities of Civil War-era Brooklyn, Genna must use all her wits to survive. But she gets more than she bargained for when a wish gone awry transports her back in time. Woods, The Defenders Online "Zetta Elliott's time travel novel A Wish After Midnight is a bit of a revelation.It's vivid, violent, and impressive history." -Colleen Mondor, Bookslut Genna is a fifteen-year-old girl who wants out of her tough Brooklyn neighborhood. "Although there is plenty of history embedded in the novel, A Wish After Midnight is written with a lyrical grace that many authors of what passes for adult literature would envy." -Paula L.