Parable of the Sower
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“A powerful story of hope and faith…a parable of modern society…excellent.“
Denver Post
A Huffington Post Pick of Novels about Climate Change
Finalist for the 1994 Nebula Award for Best Novel
A New York Magazine Top 10 Books Pick
A Gizmodo Pick of Immersive Audiobooks That Will Transport You to Another World
A #1 Amazon.com bestseller
A LeVar Burton Book Club Pick
From a celebrated, award-winning author, a modern classic about a young girl fighting for survival in a post-apocalyptic world, perfect for fans of N.K. Jemisin and Margaret Atwood.
Fifteen-year-old Lauren Olamina lives inside a gated community with her preacher father, family, and neighbors, sheltered from the surrounding social chaos and anarchy caused by climate change and economic crisis. In a society where any vulnerability is a risk, she suffers from hyperempathy—a debilitating sensitivity to others' emotions.
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. But what begins as a fight for survival soon leads to something much more: the birth of a new faith … and a startling vision of human destiny.
Includes a foreword by LeVar Burton and an afterword by N. K. Jemisin
Lauren's story continues in The Parable of the Talents.
"In the ongoing contest over which dystopian classic is most applicable to our time, Octavia Butler's 'Parable' books may be unmatched."—The New Yorker
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