Parable of the SowerHardcover, 28 February 2017

**A New York Times Book of the Year - Nebula Award nominee - Featuring an introduction by Gloria Steinem
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**From the pioneering New York Times bestselling science fiction author of *Kindred.

**The radically speculative odyssey of a young Black woman in a post-apocalyptic America and the community she cultivates despite the horrors of climate change and social inequality
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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.