Parable of the Sower
By Octavia E. Butler

The extraordinary, prescient NEW YORK TIMES-bestselling novel.'If there is one thing scarier than a dystopian novel about the future, it's one written in the past that has already begun to come true. This is what makesand Parable of the Sowerand even more impressive than it was when first published'and GLORIA STEINEM'Unnervingly prescient and wise'and YAA GYASI--We are coming apart. We're a rope, breaking, a single strand at a time.America is a place of chaos, where violence rules and only the rich and powerful are safe. Lauren Olamina, a young woman with the extraordinary power to feel the pain of others as her own, records everything she sees of this broken world in her journal.Then, one terrible night, everything alters beyond recognition, and Lauren must make her voice heard for the sake of those she loves.Soon, her vision becomes reality and her dreams of a better way to live gain the power to change humanity forever.PRAISE FOR OCTAVIA E. BUTLER, THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR'In the ongoing contest over which dystopian classic is most applicable to our time... for sheer peculiar prescience, Butler's novel may be unmatched'and NEW YORKER'Butler's prose, always pared back to the bone, delineates the painful paradoxes of metamorphosis with compelling precision'and GUARDIAN'Octavia Butler was a visionary'and VIOLA DAVIS'One of the most significant literary artists of the twentieth century. One cannot exaggerate the impact she has had'and JUNOT DIAZ'An icon of the Afrofuturism world, envisioning literary realms that placed black characters front and center'and VANITY FAIR'Butler writes with such a familiarity that the alien is welcome and intriguing. She really artfully exposes our human impulse to self-destruct'and LUPITA NYONG'O