![]() ![]() Lauren Olamina, a young woman with the extraordinary power to feel the pain of others as her own, records everything she sees of this broken world in her journal. We're a rope, breaking, a single strand at a time.Īmerica is a place of chaos, where violence rules and only the rich and powerful are safe. Unnervingly prescient and wise' YAA GYASI This is what makes Parable of the Sower even more impressive than it was when first published' GLORIA STEINEM ![]() If there is one thing scarier than a dystopian novel about the future, it's one written in the past that has already begun to come true. ![]() There are many things she needs to know: how her country could embrace a violent, far-right President promising to make America great again, why they turned a blind eye to the suffering - and the truth about her mother. ![]() In order for me to understand who I am, I must begin to understand who she was.Īsha was born into a broken world. I think she can help each of us to do the same' GLORIA STEINEM 'Octavia Butler was playing out our very real possibilities as humans. Many of the novels she wrote were part of three different book series called The Patternist series, the Xenogenesis series, and the Parable series or the. Nearly 30 years after the books were originally published, Butler's timely message of hope and resistance in the face of fanaticism is more relevant than ever. for sheer peculiar prescience, Butler's novel may be unmatched' NEW YORKER The complete Parable Duology, a dystopian sci-fi classic from renowned author, Octavia Butler. 'In the ongoing contest over which dystopian classic is most applicable to our time. ![]()
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