In a society where any vulnerability is a risk, she suffers from hyperempathy, a debilitating sensitivity to others’ emotions. Fifteen-year-old Lauren Olamina lives inside a gated community with her preacher father, family, and neighbors, sheltered from the surrounding anarchy. 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. Butler “pairs well with 1984 or The Handmaid’s Tale” (John Green, New York Times) This highly acclaimed post-apocalyptic novel of hope and terror from award-winning author Octavia E. Parable of the Sower (Grand Central Publishing, Paperback, aPRIL 2019)
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