Book Club (FTP Edition): Parable of the Talents, Octavia Butler
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We first met Lauren Olamina in Parable of the Sower, and her vision and determination stayed with me for weeks. Parable of the Talents picks up right where we left off, and somehow Octavia Butler makes the stakes even higher.
Lauren has made it out of the chaos of Sower with a small community, a shared belief system she calls Earthseed, and a fragile sense of hope.
The America of Talents has found its strongman — a politician running on "Make America Great Again" (!) whose followers are more than happy to use violence to get there. Into this rising tide, Lauren is trying to hold her community together and keep her dream of something better alive.
This is the fourth novel on the "FTP list". FTP stands for F the Patriarchy. The list exists because the voices on the Top 100 are overwhelmingly white and male. If you have recommendations for this list, send them my way.
Butler created a world (in 1998!) that resonates a little too much right now. Let's not look away. But let's not do it alone either.
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