Parable of the Sower

<p><b>A beautiful new edition of a modern classic by celebrated, award-winning author, Octavia E. Butler. With an introduction by Levar Burton and an afterword by N.K. Jemisin.</b><br><br>''If there is one thing scarier than a dystopian novel about the future, it''s one written in the past that has already begun to come true'' <b>GLORIA STEINEM</b><br><br><b><i>We are coming apart. We''re a rope, breaking, a single strand at a time.</i></b><br><br>America is a place of chaos, where violence rules and only the rich and powerful are safe. Lauren Olamina, a young woman with the extraordinary power to feel the pain of others as her own, records everything she sees of this broken world in her journal.<br><br>Then, one terrible night, everything alters beyond recognition, and Lauren must make her voice heard for the sake of those she loves. <br><br>Soon, her vision becomes reality and her dreams of a better way to live gain the power to change humanity forever.<br><br><b>Praise for Octavia E. Butler</b><br><br>''Unnervingly prescient and wise'' <b>YAA GYASI</b><br><br>''Butler''s prose, always pared back to the bone, delineates the painful paradoxes of metamorphosis<br>with compelling precision'' <b>GUARDIAN </b><br><br>''One of the most significant literary artists of the twentieth century. One cannot exaggerate<br>the impact she has had'' <b>JUNOT DIAZ</b><br><br>''Butler''s evocative, often troubling, novels explore far-reaching issues of race, sex, power and, ultimately, what it means to be human'' <b>NEW YORK TIMES</b><br><br>''An icon of the Afrofuturism world, envisioning literary realms that placed black characters front and center'' <b>VANITY FAIR</b><br><br>''Octavia Butler was a visionary'' <b>VIOLA DAVIS</b></p>