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Author:

Butler, Octavia E., author.

Title:

Parable of the sower / Octavia E. Butler.

Publisher:

Grand Central Publishing,

Copyright Date:

2019

Description:

345 pages ; 21 cm

Subject:

African Americans--Fiction.
Dystopias--Fiction.
Southern California--Fiction.
Science fiction.
Dystopias.
Science fiction.

Other Authors:

Jemisin, N. K., writer of foreword.

Notes:

First Grand Central Publishing edition, 2000 ; reissued 2019. Original copyright, ©1993. "With a new foreword from award-winning author N. K. Jemison"--Cover. "This Grand Central Publishing edition is published by arrangement with Seven Stories Press..." -- Title page verso. Includes reading group guide.

Summary:

In 2025 California, an eighteen-year-old African American woman, suffering from a hereditary trait that causes her to feel others' pain as well as her own, flees northward from her small community and its desperate savages.
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.

ISBN:

1538732181
9781538732182

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1097664792

LCCN:

2019011221

Locations:

ORAX826 -- Scott Community College (Bettendorf)

UKPD911 -- Carlisle Public Library (Carlisle)

TYPH572 -- Cedar Rapids Public Library (Cedar Rapids)

TZPC572 -- Center Point Public Library (Center Point)

OOAX232 -- Clinton Community College Library (Clinton)

CUPC586 -- Columbus Junction Public Library (Columbus Junction)

XXPH787 -- Council Bluffs Public Library (Council Bluffs)

YUPD232 -- DeWitt Community Library (De Witt)

TFPI826 -- Scott County Library System (Eldridge)

ALPE516 -- Fairfield Public Library (Fairfield)

CMPE792 -- Drake Community Library (Grinnell)

RNPC397 -- Mary J. Barnett Memorial Library (Guthrie Center)

S1PD771 -- Johnston Public Library (Johnston)

YEPF572 -- Marion Public Library (Marion)

GLAX641 -- Marshalltown Community College Library (Marshalltown)

FGPD194 -- New Hampton Public Library (New Hampton)

GUPF501 -- Newton Public Library (Newton)

MCPB423 -- Radcliffe Public Library (Radcliffe)

DNPA403 -- Stanhope Public Library (Stanhope)

SMPE094 -- Waverly Public Library (Waverly)