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Camilla Cluett
Jan 11, 2024 rated it it was amazing
Incredible book. The journey through poverty that I will hopefully never experience reminded me of a futuristic (but present day) grapes of wrath. The way Octavia Butler writes about pain, grief, and hardship is beautiful and incredibly heavy. She was a visionary.
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