Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler is available as a print book\, an e-book\, a pre-loaded audiobook\, an audiobook CD\, and as a < a href="https://indypl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S165C1679108">Book Club Kit in the Library's collection.
\n"When global climate change and economic crises lead to social chaos in the early 2020s\, California b ecomes full of dangers\, from pervasive water shortage to masses of vagabo nds who will do anything to live to see another day. Fifteen-year-old Laur en Olamina lives inside a gated community with her preacher father\, famil y\, and neighbors\, sheltered from the surrounding anarchy. In a society w here any vulnerability is a risk\, she suffers from hyperempathy\, a debil itating sensitivity to others' emotions. Precocious and clear-eyed\, Laure n must make her voice heard in order to protect her loved ones from the im minent disasters her small community stubbornly ignores. But what begins a s a fight for survival soon leads to something much more: the birth of a n ew faith . . . and a startling vision of human destiny."
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