Parable of the Talents

<p><b>A special hardback edition of Octavia E. Butler''s extraordinarily prescient novel, with new cover artwork by Monet Alyssa.</b><br><br>''Octavia Butler was playing out our very real possibilities as humans. I think she can help each of us to do the same''<b> GLORIA STEINEM</b><br><br><b>In order for me to understand who I am, I must begin to understand who she </b><b>was.</b><br><br>Asha was born into a broken world. There are many things she needs to know: how her country could embrace a violent, far-right President promising to make America great again, why they turned a blind eye to the suffering - and the truth about her mother.<br><br>In her journals, Lauren Olamina tells of a great love divided between her young daughter, her community and the revelation that led her to found a new faith that teaches ''God Is Change''. But under a tyrannical religious regime who consider the mere existence of a black female leader a threat, Lauren knows she must soon either sacrifice her da