Fledgling ghostgirl she is forced to choose

she is forced to choose

all the modern wisdoms we hold to be self-evident

But what he wants -- the power to rule -- will soon be in his grasp

Scanning the streamlined but explicit instructions

what had happened to the American soldiers at Berga has been a closely guarded secret

Fledgling ghostgirl she is forced to chooseOctavia E. Butler's final novel is the story of an apparently young, amnesiac girl whose alarmingly unhuman needs and abilities lead her to a startling conclusion: She is in fact a genetically modified, 53 year old vampire. Forced to discover what she can about her stolen former life, she must at the same time learn who wantedand still wantsto destroy her and those she cares for, and how she can save herself. "A master storyteller, Butler casts an