A review by audrarussellwrites
A Handful of Earth, a Handful of Sky: The World of Octavia Butler by Lynell George

5.0

A beautiful, intimate, and thoughtfully constructed biography of Octavia Butler. The author combed through boxes and boxes of Butler's journals, notebooks, and other personal belongings and, by the end of the book, made me feel as if I had the wonderful and rare opportunity of having a long and inspiring informal talk with Ms. Butler myself. As a writer, I treasured every page of this work. Read it in one sitting.