April Riot Reads Meeting

For April, we’ll read classic Afrofuturist novel The Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler! When I ask people about their all-time favorite books, this one comes up again and again.

The Parable of the Sower:
Fifteen-year-old Lauren Olamina lives inside a gated community with her preacher father, family, and neighbors, sheltered from the surrounding social chaos and anarchy caused by climate change and economic crisis. 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.

Masks welcome but not mandatory.

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From our host, Indy Reads:
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