Parable of the Sower (Octavia E. Butler)
$18.63
She’s being obvious again! But god, is it remarkable. Together with Talents, of course. I will say that people often talk about how painful this book is, but to me it felt deeply comforting after some very hard years. There’s so much value in having your eyes wide open. It’s what I think true political optimism is — unflinching about the current world and imaginative about the possibilities for a better one.
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Parable of the Sower
Aya C
“The book that opened my eyes to Octavia Butler. Eerily prescient for having been written >30 years ago!”
Devon
“Was inspired to re-read this after seeing her journals on display at the Huntington Library. Even better the second time around.”
Sam
“From the mother of Afro-Futurism, a dystopian tale set in a near-future, climate-ravaged Los Angeles. Lauren Olamina, our heroine, creates a new religion called Earthseed as she flees the collapse of her gated community. This 1993 book has a fascist president with the slogan "Make America Great Again", which, for the record was a slogan from Ronald Regan, so yeah, Trump even stole THAT. BONUS: Buy”
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