Parable of the Sower (Paperback)

Introduction

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 hyperempathya 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.

In the ongoing contest over which dystopian classic is most applicable to our time, Octavia Butlers Parable books may be unmatched.The New Yorker