Clay's Ark (Patternmaster, #3)

by Octavia E. Butler

She let out a breath she had not known she was holding and tried to go back to him.

Really, Octavia???

They had clearly feared turn-of-the-century irrationality—religious overzealousness on one side, destructive hedonism on the other, with both heated by ideological intolerance and corporate greed.

Eli loved the boy desperately, longed to give him the gift of humanity that children everywhere else on earth took for granted.

In Louisiana there’s a group that has decided the disease was brought in by foreigners—so they’re shooting anyone who seems a little odd to them. Mostly Asians, blacks, and browns.”