ISBN: 1538765497 9781538765494

Category: Fiction / Dystopian

Page count: 368

<p><b>From a celebrated, award-winning author, a modern classic about a young girl fighting for survival in a post-apocalyptic world, perfect for fans of N.K. Jemisin and Margaret Atwood.</b></p><p> Fifteen-year-old Lauren Olamina lives inside a gated community with her preacher father, family, and neighbors, sheltered from the surrounding social chaos and anarchy caused by climate change and economic crisis. In a society where any vulnerability is a risk, she suffers from hyperempathy—a debilitating sensitivity to others' emotions.<br><br> 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. </p><p> Includes a foreword by LeVar Burton and an afterword by N. K. Jemisin </p><p><b>Lauren's story continues in <i>The Parable of the Talents. </i><br><br> "In the ongoing contest over which dystopian classic is most applicable to our time, Octavia Butler's 'Parable' books may be unmatched."—<i>The New Yorker</i></b><br>   </p>