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

challenging dark reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.75

so fucking fantastic, and i say that as someone who doesn’t usually love sci fi. butler has got a fabulous literary voice, and the plot and characters kept me completely hooked (to the point where i bought the sequel before even finishing the first book.) as one of the reviews notes, this novel feels profoundly prescient of our current time. and i couldn’t leave a review without pulling a quote that lives in my head rent free “drowning people / sometimes die / fighting their rescuers”