Dawn -- Octavia E. Butler, Paperback Nature The only place she feels

The only place she feels like she belongs is with him and the horses he has taught her to love

and fantastic -- and the one thing they share in common

the only human engagement with Area X--a seemingly malevolent landscape surrounded by an invisible border and mysteriously wiped clean of all signs of civilization--has been a series of expeditions overseen by a government agency so secret it has almost been forgotten: the Southern Reach

I've only ever walked in stolen shoes

One of Amazon's Best History Books of January

Dawn -- Octavia E. Butler, Paperback Nature The only place she feelsOne woman is called upon to rebuild the future of humankind after a nuclear war, in this revelatory post apocalyptic tale from the award winning author of Parable of the Sower. When Lilith lyapo wakes from a centuries long sleep, she finds herself aboard the vast spaceship of the Oankali. She discovers that the Oankali a seemingly benevolent alien race intervened in the fate of the humanity hundreds of years ago, saving everyone who survived a nuclear