A review by whatsbookinjenni
Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler

adventurous dark emotional reflective slow-paced

3.5

I finished this two days ago (albeit two very chaotic days), but I think I may have to continue sitting on this one (and eagerly awaiting talking about it as a book club pick) because I don't quite know what to think! Octavia Butler offers a lot of interesting ideas, particularly in terms of the quiet apocalypse in which some institutions still exist while social norms and structures have just totally fallen apart...but at the same time it was just SO SO violent, which I think I really struggled with (and I think is juxtaposed in a lot of ways with Station Eleven, which portrays an apocalyptic world in which our innate human connectivity really comes through)...lots to think about!!