Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler was good…and a bit too real at times. There were hints of the breakdowns illustrated in the novel during the COVID Pandemic in some places, and if it really goes to hell, if the world really breaks, I don’t know if will go full “Mad Max” as illustrated here, but indeed there will be some authoritarian power plays being made in the traditional dystopic sense, I’ll bet.
I’ll be getting the sequel to this one as soon as it’s back at the library!
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.
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