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The Reading Wells Book Club: 2022 reads - hosted by thereadingwells
February: Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
"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 preacher father, family, and neighbors, sheltered from the surrounding anarchy. In a society where any vulnerability is a risk, she suffers from hyperempathy, a debilitating sensitivity 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.
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299 pages • first pub 1993 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780941423991
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Four Walls Eight Windows
Publication date: 01 October 1993
fiction
classics
dystopian
literary
science fiction
challenging
dark
tense
medium-paced
fiction
classics
dystopian
literary
science fiction
challenging
dark
tense
medium-paced
299 pages • first pub 1993 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780941423991
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Four Walls Eight Windows
Publication date: 01 October 1993
fiction
classics
dystopian
literary
science fiction
challenging
dark
tense
medium-paced
fiction
classics
dystopian
literary
science fiction
challenging
dark
tense
medium-paced
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