Earthseed

The powerful, Hugo Award-winning Octavia E. Butler imagines a near-future dystopia in which a courageous young woman escapes the slaughter of her family and community while spreading word of a new religion that embraces survival and change. Parable of the Sower: In the aftermath of an ecological and economic apocalypse, the minister’s daughter Lauren Oya Olamina escapes the slaughter that claims the lives of her family and nearly every other member of their gated California community. Heading north with two young companions through an American wasteland, the courageous young woman faces dangers at every turn while spreading word of a remarkable new religion that embraces survival and change.