"One of the most important and groundbreaking science-fiction authors."- Entertainment Weekly "A gripping tale of survival and a poignant account of growing up sane in a disintegrating world."- New York Times Book Review Butler gives us a satisfying protagonist in the hypersensitive teenager Lauren, whose courage and wits are an infinite source of inspiration."- Flea, Wall Street Journal It's a terrifying vision of a dismal future brought on by the willful ignorance, racism and greed of human beings, and an eerily dangerous parallel to our present path. "Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower is a stunner. On tribalism, race, gender, and sexuality."- O, The Oprah Magazine Possibilities - and dangers - of the human race, all while offering lessons The groundbreaking sci-fi and speculative fiction author wasĪ master of spinning imaginative tales that introduced you to both the Talking must-read authors like Maya Angelou, James Baldwin, and Toni Morrison, the one-and-only Octavia Butler needs be a part of A worthy read for those intent on building a better world as this pandemic continues to lay bare how untenable, how depravedly unequal, the American way of life is and has always been."- Yaa Gyasi, New York Times "In the ongoing contest over which dystopian classic is most applicable to our time, Octavia Butler's 'Parable' books may be unmatched."- New Yorker Our evolution."- Brit Marling, New York Times Guin, Toni Morrison and Margaret ed the tenets of genre to reveal the injustices of the present and imagine Idea how to get there, but I knew she had found something life-saving. Lighthouse blinking from an island of understanding way out at sea. "A brilliant, endlessly rich dystopian novel that pairs well with 1984 or The Handmaid's Tale, and it's also a fascinating exploration of how crises can fuel new religious and ideological movements."- John Green, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Turtles All the Way Down, New York Times But what begins as a fight for survival soon leads to something much more: the birth of a new faith. Precocious and clear-eyed, Lauren must make her voice heard in order to protect her loved ones from the imminent disasters her small community stubbornly ignores. In a society where any vulnerability is a risk, she suffers from hyperempathy, a debilitating sensitivity to others' emotions. Fifteen-year-old Lauren Olamina lives inside a gated community with her preacher father, family, and neighbors, sheltered from the surrounding anarchy. When global climate change and economic crises lead to social chaos in the early 2020s, California becomes full of dangers, from pervasive water shortage to masses of vagabonds who will do anything to live to see another day. This acclaimed post-apocalyptic novel of hope and terror from an award-winning author "pairs well with 1984 or The Handmaid's Tale" and includes a foreword by N.
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