On the Simple Prophecy of Octavia Butler’s ‘Parable of the Sower’

Image credit: Paul Lewin / Literary Hub. Article by Roz Dineen. Literary Hub – July 22, 2024.

Parable of the Sower was first published in October 1993. It tells the story of 15-year-old Lauren Olamina, a young Black woman living through a time of severe societal collapse. She creates (through observation and deduction) a new religion, Earthseed, which she expounds between her diary entries in simple verses that are both axiomatic and richly open-ended […]

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