<p>''One of the most significant literary artists of the twentieth century'' <b>JUNOT DIAZ</b><br><br>''Octavia Butler was playing out our very real possibilities as humans. I think she can help each of us to do the same'' <b>GLORIA STEINEM</b><br><b><br>One woman is called upon to reconstruct humanity in this hopeful, thought-provoking novel by the bestselling, award-winning author. For readers of Margaret Atwood, Toni Morrison and Ursula K. Le Guin.<br></b><br> When Lilith lyapo wakes in a small white room with no doors or windows, she remembers a devastating war, and a husband and child long lost to her.<br><br>She finds herself living among the Oankali, a strange race who intervened in the fate of humanity hundreds of years before. They spared those they could from the ruined Earth, and suspended them in a long, deep sleep. <br><br>Over centuries, the Oankali learned from the past, cured disease and healed the world. Now they want Lilith to lead her people back home. But salvation