2024 Book Selection Discussion: Parable of the Sower
Thu, Sep 12
|Zoom
Join the collective for our 2024 book selection discussion on the Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler. A New York Times Bestseller that revolves around Lauren Olamina who struggles to protect her loved ones while overcoming her own internal battles. Read the synopsis of her story down below.
Time & Location
Sep 12, 2024, 7:00 PM – 11:00 PM EST
Zoom
About the event
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. Fifteen-year-old Lauren Olamina lives inside a gated community with her preacger father, family, and neighbors, sheltered from the surrounding anarchy. In a society where any vulnerability is a risk, she suffers from hyperempathy, a debilitating sensivity 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.