Octavia Butler does not respect boundaries. Well, at least not the boundaries between fiction genres. Fledgling, the last book she published before her death in 2006, moves through suspense plot memes faster than Kim Kardashian posts selfies on Instagram. The result is a kind of turbocharged storytelling, in a book both alluring and jarring, fast-paced …
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