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Octavia E. Butler came into my life at the exact moment when I needed her. It was the summer of 1996. I was fifteen—shy, awkward, and nerdy—and trying to figure out who I was. I knew I was the daughter of a single mother, a Jamaican immigrant. I knew I was smart; I was a student in the International Baccalaureate program at my magnet high school. But I felt the weight of all that I was not. I wasn’t middle class, or popular, or pretty. I was an accidental loner who spent her Saturdays taking two or three buses to find a well-stocked library. One Saturday, I was browsing the stacks in the science fiction section at the Lauderdale Lakes Branch Library when something caught my eye. It was the picture of a Black woman. Her eyes were closed, and she had a tiny globe suspended between her upturned hands.1 I was immediately enthralled and grabbed the book. It was called Parable of the Sower by an author I’d never heard of—Octavia E. Butler. The book was about a Black girl, a teenager, who lived in the near future apocalypse of 2024, whose ideas might just change the world. I was floored. I looked around, wondering whether I was being pranked, and then I went to the front desk to check it out. It was exactly what I was looking for and exactly what I needed. That day I checked out Parable of the Sower and Julia Alvarez’s How the García Girls Lost Their Accents, completely unaware of how both books would change my life.2 I packed the two books, plus a bunch of random paperbacks, into my suitcase for my summer trip.