A library staff member will lead a virtual book group on Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler. Copies of the book are available to pick up here at the library - please call (847) 376.2840 or email readersservicesdesk@dppl.org if you have any questions. The discussion will be held online using Zoom.
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Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
Parable of the Sower is the Butlerian odyssey of one woman who is twice as feeling in a world that has become doubly dehumanized. The time is 2025. The place is California, where small walled communities must protect themselves from hordes of desperate scavengers and roaming bands of people addicted to a drug that activates an orgasmic desire to burn, rape, and murder. When one small community is overrun, Lauren Olamina, an 18 year old black woman with the hereditary train of 'hyperempathy'--which causes her to feel others' pain as her own--sets off on foot along the dangerous coastal highways, moving north into the unknown.
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