Dawn (Xenogenesis, #1)

by Octavia E. Butler

Humanity in its attempt to destroy itself had made the world unlivable.

You are horror and beauty in rare combination. In a very real way, you’ve captured us, and we can’t escape.

Strangers of a different species had been accepted as family. A human friend and ally had been rejected.

Grief was grief, she thought. It was pain and loss and despair—an abrupt end where there should have been a continuing.