Parable of the Talents

<p><b>A stunning new contemporary edition of</b><b> Octavia E. Butler's award-winning sequel to <i>Parable of the Sower</i>. W</b><b>ith an introduction by </b><b>Akwaeke Emezi.</b><br><br>'Octavia Butler was playing out our very real possibilities as humans'<b> GLORIA STEINEM</b><br><i><br><b>In order for me to understand who I am, I must begin to understand who she </b><b>was.</b></i><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 daughter and her followers - or forsake the beliefs that could transform human destiny.<br><br><b>WINNER OF THE NEBULA AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL</b><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 with compelling precision' <b>GUARDIAN<br></b><br>'One of the most significant literary artists of the twentieth century. One cannot exaggerate 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<br></b><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>