Parable of the Talents

Parable of the TalentsThis sequel to Parable of the Sower by ground breaking writer Octavia E. Butler feel like a prophetic nod to our current world. 'In the ongoing contest over which dystopian classic is most applicable to our time for sheer peculiar prescience, Butler's novel may be unmatched' New Yorker Asha was born into a broken world. There are many things she needs to know: how her country could embrace a violent, far right President promising to make America great

This sequel to Parable of the Sower by ground-breaking writer Octavia E. Butler feel like a prophetic nod to our current world.

'In the ongoing contest over which dystopian classic is most applicable to our time... for sheer peculiar prescience, Butler's novel may be unmatched' - New Yorker 

Asha was born into a broken world. There are many things she needs to know: how her country could embrace a violent, far-right President promising to make America great again, why they turned a blind eye to the suffering - and the truth about her mother.

In her journals, Lauren Olamina tells of a great love divided between her young daughter, her community and the revelation that led her to found a new faith that teaches 'God Is Change'. But under a tyrannical religious regime who consider the mere existence of a black female leader a threat, Lauren knows she must soon either sacrifice her daughter and her followers - or forsake the beliefs that could transform human destiny.