Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler

Format & Condition: Paperback, New
Genre: Dystopian Fiction

In a California destabilized by climate change and economic collapse, Lauren Olamina grows up inside a community whose walls offer increasingly fragile protection. Her unusual ability to feel others’ pain makes survival especially difficult, but she begins developing a vision for a different future.

For readers who appreciate thought-provoking fiction about community, inequality, belief, and resilience. A modern classic with plenty to discuss, this edition includes a foreword by LeVar Burton and an afterword by N. K. Jemisin.