<p><span class="a-text-bold">The extraordinary, prescient NEW YORK TIMES-bestselling novel.</span><span><br><br>'If there is one thing scarier than a dystopian novel about the future, it's one written in the past that has already begun to come true. This is what makes </span><span class="a-text-italic">Parable of the Sower </span><span>even more impressive than it was when first published' </span><span class="a-text-bold">GLORIA STEINEM</span><span><br><br>'Unnervingly prescient and wise' </span><span class="a-text-bold">YAA GYASI</span><span class="a-text-bold"><br></span><span class="a-text-bold a-text-italic"><br>--</span><span><br><br></span><span class="a-text-italic">We are coming apart. We're a rope, breaking, a single strand at a time.</span><span><br><br>America is a place of chaos, where violence rules and only the rich and powerful are safe. Lauren Olamina, a young woman with the extraordinary power to feel the pain of others as her own, records everything she sees of this broken world in her journal.<br><br>Then, one terrible night, everything alters beyond recognition, and Lauren must make her voice heard for the sake of those she loves. <br><br>Soon, her vision becomes reality and her dreams of a better way to live gain the power to change humanity forever.<br><br><br></span><span class="a-text-bold">PRAISE FOR OCTAVIA E. BUTLER, THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR</span><span><br><br>'In the ongoing contest over which dystopian classic is most applicable to our time... for sheer peculiar prescience, Butler's novel may be unmatched' </span><span class="a-text-bold">NEW YORKER</span><span><br><br>'Butler's prose, always pared back to the bone, delineates the painful paradoxes of metamorphosis with compelling precision' </span><span class="a-text-bold">GUARDIAN</span><span><br><br>'Octavia Butler was a visionary' </span><span class="a-text-bold">VIOLA DAVIS</span><span><br><br>'One of the most significant literary artists of the twentieth century. One cannot exaggerate the impact she has had' </span><span class="a-text-bold">JUNOT DIAZ</span><span><br><br>'An icon of the Afrofuturism world, envisioning literary realms that placed black characters front and center' </span><span class="a-text-bold">VANITY FAIR</span><span><br><br>'Butler writes with such a familiarity that the alien is welcome and intriguing. She really artfully exposes our human impulse to self-destruct' </span><span class="a-text-bold">LUPITA NYONG'O</span></p>
<div class="a-row a-expander-container a-expander-extend-container"> <h3><span>Review</span></h3> <div class="a-section a-spacing-small a-padding-small"> <span>One of the most significant literary artists of the twentieth century. One cannot exaggerate the impact she has had -- Junot Diaz<br><br>Butler's prose, always pared back to the bone, delineates the painful paradoxes of metamorphosis with compelling precision ― </span><span class="a-text-italic">Guardian</span><span><br><br>A dark, compelling and still horribly resonant time travel story ― </span><span class="a-text-italic">Independent</span><span><br><br>[Her] evocative, often troubling, novels explore far-reaching issues of race, sex, power and, ultimately, what it means to be human ― </span><span class="a-text-italic">New York Times</span><span><br><br>No novel I've read this year has felt as relevant, as gut-wrenching or as essential... If you've ever tweeted "All Lives Matter", someone needs to shove </span><span class="a-text-italic">Kindred</span><span> into your hand, and quickly ― </span><span class="a-text-italic">The Pool</span><span><br><br></span><span class="a-text-italic">Kindred </span><span>is that rare magical artifact . . . the novel one returns to, again and again ― </span><span class="a-text-italic">Harlan Ellison</span><span><br><br>One cannot finish </span><span class="a-text-italic">Kindred </span><span>without feeling changed. It is a shattering work of art ― </span><span class="a-text-italic">Los Angeles Herald-Examiner</span><span><br><br>[A] must-read novel ― </span><span class="a-text-italic">BBC</span><span><br><br>Everyone should read at least one novel by the grand dame of science fiction, and </span><span class="a-text-italic">Kindred</span><span> is a perfect (and harrowing and disturbing and brilliant) place to start ― </span><span class="a-text-italic">Refinery 29</span><span><br><br>The immediate effect of reading Octavia Butler's </span><span class="a-text-italic">Kindred</span><span> is to make every other time travel book in the world look as if it's wimping out... This is a brilliant book, utterly absorbing, very well written, and deeply distressing. It's very hard to read, not because it's not good but because it's so good ― </span><span class="a-text-italic">Tor</span><span><br><br>A searing, caustic examination of bizarre and alien practices on the third planet from the sun ― </span><span class="a-text-italic">Kirkus</span><span><br><br>One of the most original, thought-provoking works examining race and identity ― </span><span class="a-text-italic">Los Angeles Times</span><span><br><br>Impossible to turn away from once you've devoured the first few pages ― </span><span class="a-text-italic">Starburst</span><span><br><br>If you haven't read Butler, you don't yet understand how rich the possibilities of science fiction can be ― </span><span class="a-text-italic">Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction</span><span><br><br>Butler's books are exceptional ― </span><span class="a-text-italic">Village Voice</span><span><br><br>Few writers in our field are so good at blending page-turners with philosophical questions so seamlessly -- Cory Doctorow</span> </div> <h3><span>Book Description</span></h3> <div class="a-section a-spacing-small a-padding-small"> <span class="a-text-bold">The extraordinary, prescient NEW YORK TIMES-bestselling novel.</span> </div> <div data-expanded="true" class="a-expander-content a-expander-extend-content a-expander-content-expanded" style="overflow: hidden;"> <h3><span>About the Author</span></h3> <div class="a-section a-spacing-small a-padding-small"> <p><span>OCTAVIA E. BUTLER (1947-2006) was the renowned author of numerous ground-breaking novels, including </span><span class="a-text-italic">Kindred</span><span>, </span><span class="a-text-italic">Wild Seed</span><span>, and </span><span class="a-text-italic">Parable of the Sower</span><span>. Recipient of the Locus, Hugo and Nebula awards, and a PEN Lifetime Achievement Award for her body of work, in 1995 she became the first science-fiction writer to receive the MacArthur Fellowship 'genius grant'. A pioneer of her genre, Octavia's dystopian novels explore myriad themes of Black injustice, women's rights, global warming and political and economic disparity, and her work is taught in over two hundred colleges and universities nationwide.<br><br>In 2020, Octavia E. Butler became a </span><span class="a-text-italic">New York Times </span><span>bestselling author.</span></p> </div> </div> <div class="a-row"> <a data-csa-c-func-deps="aui-da-a-expander-toggle" data-csa-c-type="widget" data-csa-interaction-events="click" aria-expanded="true" role="button" href="javascript:void(0)" data-action="a-expander-toggle" class="a-expander-header a-declarative a-expander-extend-header" data-a-expander-toggle="{"allowLinkDefault":true, "expand_prompt":"Read more", "collapse_prompt":""}" data-csa-c-id="qf6gxp-3uur5m-8ib0iu-d7wubd"><i class="a-icon a-icon-extender-collapse"></i><span class="a-expander-prompt"></span></a> </div> </div>
