Parable of the Sower

<p><b>The extraordinary, prescient <i>New York Times</i> bestseller - a modern classic about a young girl fighting for survival in a post-apocalyptic world.</b><br> <br> '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 makes <i>Parable of the Sower</i> even more impressive than it was when first published' <b>GLORIA STEINEM</b><br> <br> 'Unnervingly prescient and wise' <b>YAA GYASI</b><br> <br> <i>We are coming apart. We're a rope, breaking, a single strand at a time.</i><br> <br> 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.<br> <br> Then, one terrible night, everything alters beyond recognition, and Lauren must make her voice heard for the sake of those she loves.<br> <br> Soon, her vision becomes reality and her dreams of a better way to live gain the power to change humanity forever.<br> <br> <b>Lauren's story continues in <i>Parable of the Talents</i>.</b><br> <br> <b>PRAISE FOR OCTAVIA E. BUTLER</b><br> <br> 'In the ongoing contest over which dystopian classic is most applicable to our time... for sheer peculiar prescience, Butler's novel may be unmatched' <b>NEW YORKER</b><br> <br> 'Butler's prose, always pared back to the bone, delineates the painful paradoxes of metamorphosis with compelling precision' <b>GUARDIAN</b><br> <br> 'Octavia Butler was a visionary' <b>VIOLA DAVIS</b><br> <br> 'One of the most significant literary artists of the twentieth century. One cannot exaggerate the impact she has had' <b>JUNOT DIAZ</b><br> <br> 'An icon of the Afrofuturism world, envisioning literary realms that placed black characters front and center' <b>VANITY FAIR</b><br> <br> 'Butler writes with such a familiarity that the alien is welcome and intriguing. She really artfully exposes our human impulse to self-destruct' <b>LUPITA NYONG'O</b></p>