O. Butler

In 2025 California, an eighteen-year-old African American woman, suffering from a hereditary trait that causes her to feel others' pain as well as her own, flees northward from her small community and its desperate savages.

Octavia E. ButlerThe sequel to "Parable of the Sower", this novel continues the story of Lauren Olamina, as told by her estranged daughter. As the U.S. continues its rapid slide toward a far-right religious hegemony, already insular communities are further split, and a young woman tries to come to terms with her place...