Book summary

This is the final volume in science fiction writer Octavia Butler’s Xenogenesis trilogy, which chronicles the efforts of the alien Oankali to interbreed with the human survivors of an Earth-wide nuclear war. Jodahs is the first human/Oankali construct child to become an ooloi, the Oankali third gender responsible for directing the genetic and biological alterations in the species and for creating the children in a mating group. Unfortunately, Jodahs can’t quite control its newly developed abilities, and may have to be exiled from the Earth to prevent it from inadvertently harming itself and others.