This highly acclaimed post-apocalyptic novel of hope and terror from award-winning author Octavia E. Butler "pairs well with 1984 or The Handmaid's Tale" (John Green, New York Times)--now with a new foreword by N. K. Jemisin.
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. Fifteen-year-old Lauren Olamina lives inside a gated community with her preacher father, family, and neighbors, sheltered from the surrounding anarchy. 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.
Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler
OCTAVIA E. BUTLER was a renowned African-American writer who received a MacArthur "Genius" Grant and PEN West Lifetime Achievement Award for her body of work. She was the author of several award-winning novels including Parable of the Talents, which won the Nebula for Best Novel. Acclaimed for her lean prose, strong protagonists, and social observations in stories that range from the distant past to the far future, sales of her books have increased enormously since her death as the issues she addressed in her Afrofuturistic, feminist novels and short fiction have only become more relevant. She passed away on February 24, 2006.
ISBN-13: 9781538732182
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Publication date: 04/30/2019
Series: Parable (Earthseed) Series , #1
Edition description: Reprint
Pages: 368
Sales rank: 22
Product dimensions: 5.20(w) x 7.90(h) x 1.10(d)
Lexile: 710L
BISAC Categories:
Banned Book - Fiction | Literary
Banned Book- Fiction | Dystopian
Banned Book- Fiction | African American & Black | Women
Banned Book- Fiction | Science Fiction | Apocalyptic & Post-Apocalyptic
Banned Book- Fiction | Coming of Age
Banned Book- Fiction | Women
LC Subjects:
-Science fiction -Dystopias
-California, Southern -African Americans
-FICTION / Dystopian -FICTION / Science Fiction / Apocalyptic & Pos
-FICTION / African American / Women
- Ethnic Orientation | African American
- Sex & Gender | Feminine
- Topical | Coming of Age
Banned and Challenged Books
Top 50 New and Popular Science Fiction
Dewey: FIC
LC Call Number: PS3552.U827
LCCN: 2019011221
Lexile Level: 710