Parable of the Sower
Octavia E. Butler, 1993
A teenager invents a religion of change as America collapses around her, and writes down what survival might require.
Octavia E. Butler
Feels like dread, unease and hope.
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Butler won a MacArthur Fellowship in 1995, two years after this novel, and used the freedom it bought to write its sequel, Parable of the Talents.
The quiet radicalism of admitting you don’t know enough.
I realize I don’t know very much. None of us knows very much. But we can all learn more. Then we can teach one another. We can stop denying reality or hoping it will go away by magic. Books by Octavia E. Butler
Kindred
Octavia E. Butler, 1979
A Black woman in 1970s Los Angeles is pulled back to a Maryland plantation whenever a white boy’s life is in danger — and must keep him alive to survive.
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