I just finished reading KINDRED by Octavia Butler. I couldn't put it down from first page to last. Brilliant! Illuminating. Amazing. I feel terrible that I was born in the same year in the same city as her, walked the same small town streets and went to school with the same people she did, and yet I failed to know her while she lived; I was too walled in by the small white desert of my upbringing to see a kindred spirit ablaze with light nearby. If you haven't discovered Octavia Butler's books yet, start now! https://www.nypl.org/.../06/22/where-...