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“She and I were always close — too close”: Octavia Butler’s “Near of Kin,” a couple days after Mother’s Day.
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Octavia Butler’s “Near of Kin,” according to the jacket copy of her Bloodchild collection, is “her only non-SF story.” In this collection, at least, which is all I’ve read of hers, it’s the only story that doesn’t contain some sort of horror or fantasy element, the only story that rests perfectly within the rules of our real, everyday world. It’s no coincidence, then, that this simple, touching story of a girl and her uncle going through the belongings left behind by her recently dead mother, his recently dead sister, is, in the end, an incest narrative. (The girl reveals to her uncle that she knows he’s her father).
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