Interesting Readings Online! - July - Parable of the Sower (Butler)

Interesting Readings: a book club for the best in sci-fi, from quirky classics to fresh indie!

Our first July selection will be Octavia E. Butler's PARABLE OF THE SOWER.

https://bookshop.org/p/books/parable-of-the-sower-octavia-e-butler/3d0d65170d5548df

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.

Includes a foreword by LeVar Burton and an afterword by N. K. Jemisin