Girls Play Dead: Acts of Self-Preservation Own Voices Octavia Butler's 'Parable' books may

Octavia Butler's 'Parable' books may be unmatched

From the author of the New York Times bestseller Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age

and as a Chinese boy raised in Britain

into a triumphant and wholly original idiom

co-authored by Jacci herself

Girls Play Dead: Acts of Self-Preservation Own Voices Octavia Butler's 'Parable' books mayA lyrical and groundbreaking exploration of the misunderstood ways women survive and forever carry trauma from the award winning New York Times Magazine writer Jen Percy. "A groundbreaking exploration of women's often shamed and silenced responses to sexual assault Extensive, empathetic A vital record of a little discussed aspect of women's lived reality." Publishers Weekly (starred review) "Girls Play Dead reads like a novel, exquisitely rendered,