PARABLE OF THE SOWER by Octavia E. Butler

PARABLE OF THE SOWER is a modern classic that begins in July of 2024—which means we’re now living in the same time as the world imagined back in 1993 by acclaimed author Octavia E. Butler. Butler’s vision for the current moment is so clear-eyed, that the New Yorker once wrote, “In the ongoing contest over which dystopian classic is most applicable to our time, Butler’s ‘Parable’ books may be unmatched.”

The novel follows Lauren Olamina, a teenager who can feel the pain of others, living during a time where climate change, growing wealth inequality, and corporate greed, have lead to social chaos. She’s lives with her preacher father and family, sheltered from the surrounding anarchy in California, but she 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.